"I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard."

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Source : Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.115, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Raymond Chandler

#Beer Quotes #Guy Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.”
“I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?”
“Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.”
“The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.”
“As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.”

Source : Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books
“Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.”
“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

Source : "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. IV), 1983.
“I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.”

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