"Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody."

-- Washington Irving

#Loneliness Quotes #Loss Quotes #Bird Quotes

“When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.”
“The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
“Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.”
“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.”
“Even in the most wretched life, thereâ€™s hope.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2009). “Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Broadway Books
“The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.”
“When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.”

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