"I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me."

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Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

John Knowles

#Meaningful Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.”
“It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic.”

Source : "Stella Maeve On 'Golden Boy' and Being Named After Stella Adler". Interview with Shelley Brown, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2013.
“I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.”
“Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
“It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”
“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”
“I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.”

Source : "Q & A | Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger". Interview with Julie Earle-levine, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 2, 2013.
“I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.”

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