"I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study."

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Source : Hideki Yukawa (1982). “Tabibito”, p.207, World Scientific

Hideki Yukawa

#Writing Quotes #Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.”

Source : "The Rising Gorge". Book by S. J. Perelman, p. 183, 1961.
“I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.”

Source : "Rob Zombie on Going for Broke With ‘Lords of Salem’ and Why Making a Third ‘Halloween’ Would Be 'Masochistic'" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 14, 2012.
“Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere”
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
“It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?”
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

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