"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

-- John Fowles

#Suicide Quotes #Writing Quotes #Contradictory Quotes

“Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.27, Harper Collins
“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.”
“There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.”

Source : Q&A with Casey Phillips, www.timesfreepress.com. May 28, 2010.
“To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.”
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”

Source : Jean Webster (2012). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.38, Courier Corporation
“Chief Keef makes me proud that there are other young ***** out there who are about that code.”
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

Source : "Can you be too … well-dressed?" by Daisy Buchanan, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2013.
“I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.”

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