"I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture."

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Source : Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

Steve Hamilton

#Champion Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“When you work hard...it's only fair that you party hard.”
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet.”
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
“If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.”
“The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.”
“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
“I try to be me to the utmost.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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