"Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer."

-- Elia Kazan

#Narcissism Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.”
“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.145, John Wiley & Sons
“I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.”
“I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should involve the entire not only scientific community, but the entire world community. We need to think very carefully indeed.”
“Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.”
“The term Christian used to be a pejorative. Back in the day, Christians were persecuted; however, over time, it became one of the word's biggest religions. Same thing with the term Mormons in the religious area. Mormons didn't want to be called that. They wanted to be called Latter-day Saints. It's only been in recent decades that they kind of shifted that position and took ownership of it.”
“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”

Source : "The Pretender". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2009.
“Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.”

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