"Human success is a quotation from overhead."

-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Motivation Quotes #Overhead Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I donâ€™t think itâ€™s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
“No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.”
“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.”
“If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”
“You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.”
“Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.”
“I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalistâ€”a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myselfâ€¦”

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