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Clarence Major
"Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories were about all the pleasant things in life. Since we know our troubles are always coming we want to see in our fiction examples of how others have dealt with them." --
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Clarence Major
#Bored Quotes
#Conflict Quotes
#Trouble Quotes
“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.”
Source : 1935 Econometrica,'The Theory of Monopoly'.
“I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.”
“We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.”
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“Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.”
“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.”
“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”
Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
“I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.”
“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.”