"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record"

-- Elliott Smith

#Interesting Quotes #Trying Quotes #Records Quotes

“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.”
“I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.”
“Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.”
“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”
“When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.”
“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exileâ€™s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books
“Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.”
“It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.”

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