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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

— Geoffrey Fisher

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

— Walter Jon Williams

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

— David Bowie

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

— Harland Williams

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

— Nick Clegg

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

— Margaret Forster

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

— Saul Perlmutter

✗Opposing Perspectives

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

— Dusty Springfield

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

— E. B. White

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

— Marcel Proust