"And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Heart Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Way Quotes

“If I don't believe it, I don't care.”
“When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.”
“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”
“Iâ€™d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
“Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.”

Source : "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.
“People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.”
“I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job.”
“You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good.”

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