"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly."

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Source : Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Eugene O'Neill

#Life Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.”
“Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.”
“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiveâ€¦ compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”
“It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.”
“But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.”
“It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.”
“I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.”
“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”

Source : Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977

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