"And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads."

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William Styron

#Silly Quotes #Writing Quotes #Age Quotes

“Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ...”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.”
“I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.”
“Never despise meger beginings!”
“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians ...”
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
“Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.”

Source : "Secret Life's Ken Baumann Answers Our 17 Questions". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.
“It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.”

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