"Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis."

-- James Taylor

#Suicidal Quotes #Long Quotes #Wife Quotes

“If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”
“Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.”
“We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
“You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.”

Source : "Meet the Congressman Who Confronted President Obama". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2010.
“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.
“...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.”
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”
“I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

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