"Most journalists are broken down alcoholics."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Purdy

#Broken Quotes #Journalist Quotes #Broken Down Quotes

“I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.”
“[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.”
“Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.”
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
“What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.”
“I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.”
“Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.”
“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”

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