"In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Critics Quotes

“My career started slowly and then tapered off.”
“In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.”
“I am about to learn what it's like to live here.”

Source : David Berman, “Self-Portrait At 28”
“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”

Source : "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.
“Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)”
“We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.”
“Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don`t think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You will go through phases where you're just not getting along. You're not communicating well. That's going to happen, and it's going to feel impossible to you sometimes. It might not even make sense to you sometimes. Arguments are normal. You have to be patient and sit through that and remember that this is a part of human communication and interaction. You're going to have these conflicts with anyone. It's not necessarily just that person.”
“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”

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