"And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart."

-- Hilary Thayer Hamann

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“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away sheâ€™d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time sheâ€™d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, sheâ€™d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and sheâ€™d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”
“I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.”
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”
“Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'”
“But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.”
“The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.”
“The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.”
“The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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