"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Self Esteem Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.26, Vintage
“One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relationship, so yes, I was very much exploring this relationship of boys and their mothers, and Jewish boys and their mothers. Exactly that, the ridiculous lengths that a doting mother will go for her son, and the ridiculous lengths that - I will pretend this is distanced from me - the ridiculous neediness of a grown man for a mother.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--”
“These are the days of bootleg love.”
“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

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