"I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it."

-- Etgar Keret

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Make something beautiful before you are dead.”
“I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”
“If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.”
“People always think that when they grew up it was better. The people who went to Studio 54 say, "Oh, this is nothing!" or "The Limelight is nothing. In our day it was much better." But I mean, it's always great. It's always fresh to the kids. And to me, you've just got to make it happen. You can't be a downer and say, "This is nothing like the roaring 20s."”
“The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.”

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“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”
“Don't waste your sufferings.”
“A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.”

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