"When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature."

-- Edouard Bourdet

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.”

Source : Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing
“A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”
“The only people I have been able to use are those who fought”
“It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.”
“I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.”
“I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'”

Source : "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
“Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.”
“I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.”

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