"I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Garth Greenwell

#Crazy Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.”
“Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.”
“put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there”
“The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.”
“It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.”
“Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough and expectant to receive it.”

Source : "Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture".
“What motivates me is not one more championship, it is the challenge each year. I have just thoroughly enjoyed starting in spring with a new team and trying to put all the elements together to make a team.”
“Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.”

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