“There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 135 of 303
“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”
“It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.”
“As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.”
“I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.”
“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
“The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.”
“My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.”
“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”
“I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.”
“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.”
“Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.”
“Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.”
“I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.”
“I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.”
“Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.”
“Brothers naturally invite comparison.”
“I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.”
“I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.”
“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.”