"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."

-- Stephen King

#Mad Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.”
“I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.”

Source : San Diego Museum of Art, Nora Desloge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Phillip Dennis Cate, Julia Frey (1989). “Toulouse-Lautrec: the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art”, Museum
“John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.”
“I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.”

Source : Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”
“At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”
“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.”
“We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.”
“The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.”

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