"Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead."

-- Wright Morris

#Couple Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Character Quotes

“Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.”
“You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.”
“Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.”

Source : "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.
“My tagline is â€˜Less sex, more romance, lower body count.â€™”
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now â€” and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com
“I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago.”

Source : "Kendall Jenner Is Now A Wall Street Journal Magazine Columnist" By Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.
“I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.”
“I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.”

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