Writing Exercise

Write one of the quotes below into a short piece of fiction. You can either have your character think it or repeat it as dialogue.

"Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks." -- T.S. Eliot

"Savagery is necessary every four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civlization." -- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

"The absurd man is he who never changes." -- Auguste Barthelemy

Happy writing!

Susan Wells Bennett