"The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor."

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Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

Sherwood Anderson

#People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isnâ€™t all totally pointless.”
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the manâ€™s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealingâ€¦ what was always inside his head.”
“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.”
“You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.”
“Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.”

Source : Interview with Peter M. Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”

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