"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Want Quotes #Apartment Quotes

“I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.”
“Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.”
“There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.”
“Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.”
“Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.”

Source : "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.
“Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.”
“On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish Palestine, for reasons more humanitarian and religious than political. But the devastation caused by the war and the extermination of six million Jews radically changed all of our former attitudes. The idea of a Jewish homeland acquired an intense emotional appeal; I myself became an ardent Zionist..”

Source : Guy De Rothschild (1985). “The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild”, Random House Inc
“I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.”

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