"I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'"

-- Saul Bellow

#Love Quotes #Heart Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“Some of us were born to take risks...”

Source : "Pop Star Challenges Convention, Rocks Prosthetic Leg In New Video" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2014.
“There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.”

Source : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interviewwith Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
“We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.”
“Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.”
“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”
“I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”
“Video games are ubiquitous now.”
“I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.”

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