"I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life."

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Richard Pryor

#Worst Quotes #Great Things Quotes

“I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.”
“The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.”
“There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.”
“The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.”
“Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.”
“Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”
“Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.”

Source : George Shinn (2014). “The Miracle of Motivation: The Guide to Becoming Everything You Want to Be”, p.111, BookBaby

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