"Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey."

-- Gore Vidal

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.”
“Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.”

Source : "Toni Braxton Talks New Movie Role". Interview with S. Tia Brown, www.ebony.com. July 26, 2012.
“The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.”
“You can't win unless you first begin. So start now”
“I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.”

Source : "Fictional character: Pee-wee". "Big Top Pee-wee", www.imdb.com. 1988.
“They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.”
“Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”
“I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.”

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