"How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard."

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Source : 1889 On suicide. Diary entry, 5 Aug.

Alice James

#Vanity Quotes #Games Quotes #Able Quotes

“I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.”
“In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.”
“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”
“I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.”
“Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.”
“The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process”, p.211, Oxford University Press
“You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.”

Source : Song: Somebody That I Used to Know, Album: Making Mirrors, 2011

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