"There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments."

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Source : Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

Glenway Wescott

#Pain Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Literature Quotes

“A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.”
“As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajÃ±a, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.”

Source : Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.26, MIT Press
“He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.”
“The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.”
“I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.”
“I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from May 15, 2013

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