"Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it"

-- Martha Gellhorn

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“All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.”
“Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.”
“I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.”
“You guys line up alphabetically by height.”
“When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.”
“By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.”
“When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.”
“There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much anymore and I never listen to metal, so I am not very interested in music that is difficult to play.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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