"The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world."

-- John Dos Passos

#New York Quotes #World Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.”
“You never know how your work is going to be received.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.”
“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”
“I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.”
“I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.”
“There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.”
“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”

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