“So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 130 of 313
“There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.”
“Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.”
“Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.”
“As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.”
“For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.”
“Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.”
“Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.”
“I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.”
“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.”
“I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.”
“Love is a fan club with only two fans.”
“For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.”
“Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--”
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
“For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.”
“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July.”
“I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.”