"The writer's job is the job of a clown â€¦the clown who also talks about sorrow."

-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Jobs Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Clown Quotes

“To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resourcesâ€”not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.”
“A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.”
“We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
“I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.”
“An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.”
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.”
“Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.”

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