"When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing."

-- Gary Paulsen

#Hurt Quotes #Dark Quotes #Self Quotes

“Prayer never changes the laws of nature.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

Source : 'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
“A tenor is not a man but a disease.”
“If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.”
“Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic
“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”
“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”
“Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.”

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