"I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything."

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Ned Beauman

#Writing Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Mood Quotes

“Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.”
“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.”
“I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction!”

Source : "Rebecca Black Is Back!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 9, 2012.
“It's what people create that makes my heart stop.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.”
“What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?”
“Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.”
“The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”

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