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#Optimism Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Chaos Quotes
“In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.”
Source : Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.30
“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
Source : Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House
“My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
“They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.”
“We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.”
“Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.”
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