"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day"

-- Richard Price

#Years Quotes #Mind Quotes #Letters Quotes

“I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.”
“If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.”
“But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?”

Source : Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”
“That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.”
“I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,”
“I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1997). “Home Life”
“I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”
“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

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