"You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be."

-- Gunter Grass

#Wicked Quotes #Genius Quotes #Vain Quotes

“If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.”

Source : Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”
“I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.”
“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”
“As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm”
“Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.”
“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.”

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