"But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession thereâ€”good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when youâ€™re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Good Life Quotes #Wine Quotes #Weather Quotes

“I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.”
“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”
“I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.”

Source : "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.
“A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”

Source : "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.
“What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other peopleâ€™s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one youâ€™re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.”
“Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.”
“Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.”

Source : Creative Camera, №№ 163 - 174, 1978.
“Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK

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