"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."

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Source : Lech Walesa's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.

Lech Walesa

#Frustration Quotes #Frustrated Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.”

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“Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.”
“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
“Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics....”
“All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.388, Carroll & Graf

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