"I really do work in solitude."

-- Donna Tartt

#Solitude Quotes

“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”
“I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.”
“Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.”
“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
“To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.”
“Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today.”
“Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.”
“I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I liked from magazines and books and combine them to make a "collage" kind of painting. In some ways, this is similar to how I work today.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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