"I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness."

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Source : Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.13, Akashic Books

Ryan Adams

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.”

Source : "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.
“Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.”
“I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.”
“The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”
“When you get married you forget about kissing other women.”
“But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.”
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”
“You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.”

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