"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy."

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Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

Georges Simenon

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“And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.176, Faber & Faber
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
“I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.”
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
“The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.”
“You can't legislate sobriety.”
“Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.”

Source : Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”
“People alive are better than people not alive.”

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