"It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

John Maus

#People Quotes #Done Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.”
“To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.”
“Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!”
“I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.”
“The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.”
“Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.”
“Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House
“Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.”

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