"I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard."

-- John Kennedy Toole

#Beach Quotes #Night Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.”
“I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.”
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing â€” to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from â€” my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
“Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.”
“I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.”

Source : Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA
“The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.”
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
“What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.”

Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.112

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