"He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation."

-- Richard Yates

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Facts Quotes

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”
“I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.”
“I know whom I have believed.”
“They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.”
“I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.”
“You canâ€™t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“We artists allow others to see through our windows.”
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

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