“I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 106 of 313
“Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.”
“I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
“I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.”
“I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.”
“You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.”
“You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!”
“The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring”
“I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.”
“If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.”
“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”
“I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.”
“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
“The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.”
“There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.”
“When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.”
“Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.”
“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”