"I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something."

-- Paul Theroux

#Writing Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #People Quotes

“I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.”
“Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.”

Source : Prentice Mulford (2015). “Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding”, p.120, e-artnow
“...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.”
“I'm going to kill them all”
“Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Feb 12, 2016
“I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.”
“When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.”
“Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.”

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