"I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age."

-- James Ellroy

#Hurt Quotes #Stress Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.”

Source : "The Art of Scientific Investigation". Book by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, p. 65, 1950.
“Wagner is the Puccini of music.”
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
“I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.”

Source : Interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!”
“Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.”
“Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”
“Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?”

Source : Song: Simple and Clean

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