"You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it"

-- Brent Weeks

#Strong Quotes #Reality Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.”

Source : Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.56, Macmillan
“I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.”
“I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

Source : "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.
“And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.”

Source : Kevin Clash (2006). “My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud”, p.65, Harmony
“I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.”
“At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.”
“Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.”

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