"If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Elizabeth Gilbert

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”

Source : Reginald A. Ray (2008). “Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body”, p.334, Sounds True
“I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.”
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”
“As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it. So, putting out a record, it's such a brilliant opportunity to be in control of things. It's my world, my music, and I can put it out there in a way that is meaningful to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”
“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011
“I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.”

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