"I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it."

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Donald Ray Pollock

#Believe Quotes #Agony Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.”
“Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.”

Source : Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.109, Full Moon Publications
“I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.”
“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”
“It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.”
“Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.”
“My generation has the opportunity to change the world,”
“Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.”

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

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