"When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling."

-- Dashiell Hammett

#Suicide Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.”
“I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.”
“That's what makes it so right. Your eyesâ€”your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.”

Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.188, Egmont UK
“The spirits run riot in youth.”
“As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.”
“You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?”
“I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.”

Source : "Transcript of CNN Interview with the Reporter Formerly Known as Gannon", www.editorandpublisher.com. February 19, 2005.
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”

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