"I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable."

-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Miserable Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Itâ€™s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we canâ€™t see them.”
“Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.”
“To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.”

Source : Christ Stopped at Eboli ch. 1 (1945)
“Where the mind goes, the man follows.”
“When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.”

Source : "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.
“I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.”
“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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