"There is nothing more lonely than a true artist."

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Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tom Spanbauer

#Lonely Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!”
“When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.”
“One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?”
“Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.”
“It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
“I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.”
“Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.”

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