"he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular"

-- Aldous Huxley

#Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Unsuccessful Quotes

“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
“You can't see the world through a mirror.”

Source : Song: Too Much To Ask, Album: Let Go, 2002
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”
“I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face”
“Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.”
“His examiner...said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
“I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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