"I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities."

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Mary Karr

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Psychological Quotes

“In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga,”

Source : "Nile Rodgers Talks Memoir, Sly Stone’s Drug Addiction And Love Of Lady Gaga". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.
“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”
“Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all Godâ€™s children; then you will be in love with all.”
“The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.”
“Youâ€™re unbelievable,â€™ said Rosie. â€˜Look at me when Iâ€™m talking.â€™ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. â€˜I know what you look like.”
“The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.”
“In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.”
“Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 427, 1895.

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