"Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Pain Quotes #Weight Quotes #Feels Quotes

“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”
“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”
“This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.”
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”
“To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.”

Source : Spalding Gray (2011). “The Journals of Spalding Gray”, p.64, Vintage
“I want to be famous but unknown!”
“It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.”
“The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.”

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