"Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.”
“There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.”

Source : FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Nov 16, 2014
“Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.”
“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”

Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.
“In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.”

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