"The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Sweet Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.”
“Bad excuses are worse than none.”
“Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.”
“England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286”

Source : 1989 A Natural Curiosity.
“The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.”

Source : "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.
“It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.”
“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.”

Source : "A war reporter in Homs is worth any amount of outrage on Facebook" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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