"True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything."

-- J. E. Buckrose

#Depression Quotes #Real Quotes #Past Quotes

“I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,”

Source : "Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy". www.nytimes.com. November 6, 2013.
“ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.”
“Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.”
“Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin...”
“When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.”
“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.
“I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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