"When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Al Jaffee

#Writing Quotes #Kids Quotes #Play Quotes

“Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.”
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
“I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.”

Source : "Graham Norton on taking a pay cut, wanting to interview Madonna and Downton Abbey". www.mirror.co.uk. October 28, 2011.
“It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.”
“In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.”

Source : Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

Source : Song: Purple Haze
“True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.”

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