"It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless."

-- Erica Jong

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.”
“I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.”
“My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.”
“Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.”
“Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.”
“But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.”
“Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.”

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