"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Growing Up Quotes #Order Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.”
“There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.”
“Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of oneâ€™s own life.”
“My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me”
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.”
“Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.”
“When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.”

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