"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

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Source : New York Times, January 8, 1981.

Graham Greene

#Love Quotes #Depression Quotes #Fear Quotes

“The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.”
“Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.”
“To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.”
“I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Avenue of the Dead”, p.50, Open Road Media
“If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.”

Source : "Railway Budget". The Times of India, July 7, 2004.
“Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?”
“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
“Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12...the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like." That definitely changed things.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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