"Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Important Quotes #Littles Quotes #Valuable Quotes

“When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
“For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.”

Source : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
“You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”
“Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”

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