"The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Essentials Quotes #Facts Quotes #Repetition Quotes

“The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.”
“The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.”
“The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.”
“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.”
“Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a #â€Ž God who is a #â€Ž Creator not a #â€Ž Duplicator .”
“I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.”
“Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”

Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

You may also like:

Ian Mcewan
Novelist
Jennifer Egan
Novelist
Jonathan Franzen
Novelist
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
Michael Chabon
Author
Philip Roth
Novelist
Rick Moody
Novelist
Sofia Coppola
Screenwriter
Zadie Smith
Novelist