"Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice."

-- Paul Auster

#Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.”

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“Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.”
“If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”
“You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.”

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“I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.”
“As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.”
“When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.”
“I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.1, Bantam

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