"It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer."

-- John Brandon

#College Quotes #Doctors Quotes #People Quotes

“. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .”
“Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (2001). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.178, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing
“I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.”
“Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools”
“Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.”
“DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.”
“Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.”

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