"You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Childhood Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Said Quotes

“There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”
“Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.”
“The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.”

Source : "Jesse Metcalfe interview: So I'm a sex symbol? Well there are worse things I could be!". www.mirror.co.uk. August 23, 2011.
“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
“The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.”
“When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.”
“It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.”

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