"The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead."

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Source : Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014

Warren Adler

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“Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.”
“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
“A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”
“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”
“Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.”
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
“My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.”
“The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.”

Source : Carlo Levi (2008). “Fear of Freedom: With the Essay, "Fear of Painting"”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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