"Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty â€” it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life â€” froze it."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Penalties Quotes

“Born free. Taxed to death.”
“I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxietyâ€”for I had been trembling even in infancyâ€”lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.”

Source : Hayden Carruth (1998). “Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press
“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
“After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.”
“I don't really know how to play drums, so I play them wrong. But the pro guys, they never sweat. You know if someone's gone to music school, because they don't sweat when they play drums if they have.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net
“I never sexually took advantage of being Davy Jones. I wasnâ€™t the kind of guy who would hit on a girl on the road and have casual sex. I donâ€™t have casual sex”
“To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.”
“If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.”

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