"The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's."

-- Tom Wolfe

#Two Quotes #Massachusetts Quotes #Asking Quotes

“By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.”
“I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.”
“His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”
“Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”

Source : 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.
“In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'”
“I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

You may also like:

Ernest Hemingway
Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
Gay Talese
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
Joan Didion
Author
Ken Kesey
Author
Maxwell Perkins
Editor
Neal Cassady
Poet
Thomas Wolfe
Novelist