"A thought is a hard thing to control."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Hard Things Quotes

“This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.”
“I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.”
“But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.”
“Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.”

Source : Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.
“A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.”
“Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.”
“But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.”
“I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.”

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