"I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem."

-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.
“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
“Might does not make right! Right makes right!”
“You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.”
“I have already told you Father, more than once: Iâ€™m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, Iâ€™m not going to bury myself in some planterâ€™s kitchen, and Iâ€™m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in IlhÃ©us. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office”
“For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delightâ€”and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?”
“A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.”
“I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.”

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