"What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?"

-- Charles Yu

#Memories Quotes #Rolling Quotes #Different Quotes

“I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.”
“Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.”
“I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.”
“Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.”
“On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.”

Source : Song: The Year Of The Cat
“An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.”
“Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

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