"Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off."

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Source : Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

Joseph Conrad

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Life Is Short Quotes

“I started drinking in my late teen years and continued through college and into the early years of my career. I had a lot of missed opportunities because of not being able to handle my liquor, things like bad shows. But mostly what precipitated it was how it was contributing to my mental health breaking down. Alcohol and depression don't mix very well as I'm sure you know, it makes everything worse. I hit a point where I knew that if I kept drinking it wouldn't go very well.”
“Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.”
“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.”
“To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.”
“It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.”
“You can only really yell at the players you trust.”
“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!”
“Catching the apple doesn't overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It's merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.”

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