"I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me."

-- Anita Brookner

#Loneliness Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Way Quotes

“Sometimes I amaze even myself.”
“The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'”
“I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.”
“Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience. "Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. "We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one.”
“Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.35, New York Review of Books
“I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.”
“The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity”

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