"It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you? ... I really loved to write."

-- Cornell Woolrich

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dying Quotes

“It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.”

Source : Brian Francis (2004). “Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and His Nipples”, p.246, ECW Press
“Egypt is a sovereign nation.”
“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
“When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of course, if you know what will happen, you can succeed at doing it, so an athlete in flow has a stand-out game.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.”
“Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.”
“A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.”

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