"Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?"

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Unexpected Quotes #Terror Quotes

“It shouldn't hurt to be a child.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, New Society Publishers
“My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.”

Source : "Gamers for good". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. October 20, 2013.
“Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?”
“If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.”
“But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.”

Source : Jerilderie Letter, www.nma.gov.au. 1879.
“By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.”
“Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?”

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