"I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Purdy

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
“I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.”
“On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.”
“Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.57, Wesleyan University Press
“It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.”
“My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realize I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.”
“Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.”
“If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors”

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