"But nobody can run from their own demons."

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Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.3, Faber & Faber

Alexander Gordon Smith

#Running Quotes #Demon Quotes

“People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh ...”
“By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.”

Source : Ernest Vincent Wright (2015). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E””, p.129, BoD – Books on Demand
“Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.”

Source : "Living in Cyn". Interview with Will Doig, www.metroweekly.com. August 14, 2002.
“Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.”
“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
“Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.”
“Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.”
“Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.”

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