"I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do."

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Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan

Jane Bowles

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Weâ€™re not about picking a mayor. Weâ€™re about making a mayor, making the winner. And thatâ€™s what weâ€™re gonna doâ€¦. I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. All of them. I know all about all of their families. I know about their dogs and this and that.”
“My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.”
“I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.”
“Nobody knew who I was.”
“I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.”

Source : "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.
“PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.”
“And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.242, Penguin

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