"Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it."

-- John Grisham

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“Books are not life, only its ashes.”
“When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.”
“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.”
“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
“I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.”
“We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.”
“I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.”

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