"We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world."

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Source : "The making of Larry Kramer's Americans" by David Leavitt, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2015.

Larry Kramer

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day theyâ€™re full of meaningless activity; by night, theyâ€™re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things”
“The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”
“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”
“You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!”
“There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.”
“Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.”
“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

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