"I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?""

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Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

Robert Dessaix

#Writing Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Erotic Quotes

“I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.”
“I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.”
“Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.”
“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.”
“I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.”
“The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.”

Source : Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.
“I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.”

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