"I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it."

-- Colm Toibin

#Determination Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.”
“One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.”
“I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.”
“An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he canâ€™t find anything worth doing.”
“[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.”
“Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.”

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