"A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists."

-- Gary Reilly

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“I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.”

Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone, T. W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods (2007). “The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798)”, p.391, Oxford University Press
“Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
“The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.”

Source : Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.15, Faber & Faber
“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.934, Pan Macmillan
“I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.”
“I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.”
“Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'”

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