"It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter."

-- Don Herold

#Serious Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.”
“While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.”
“I donâ€™t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [â€¦] I donâ€™t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.”
“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
“Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?”
“Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger”
“There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence”
“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.”

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