"You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning."

-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Disappointment Quotes #Writing Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.”
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”
“The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.”
“All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.”
“Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.”
“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”
“If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven”
“People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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