"One day, to everyoneâ€™s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Blow Quotes #One Day Quotes #Astonishment Quotes

“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
“Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.”
“Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.”
“In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.”
“In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.”
“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”
“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.”

Source : "Concrete".
“It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'”

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