"I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple."

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Anne Tyler

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Greed Quotes

“I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press
“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”
“A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later. Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”
“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”
“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”

Source : Ira Levin (2011). “This Perfect Day”, p.114, Open Road Media

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