"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Mind Quotes #Want Quotes #Busy Quotes

“To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.6, Hachette UK
“If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.”
“I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.”

Source : "Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expressio". Book by Jeffery Howe, 2001.
“My cholesterolâ€™s a little high.”
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
“It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."”

Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin

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