"Fame isn't healthy for a writer."

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Kent Haruf

#Healthy Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.”
“I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to get knocked out. I'm scared of not going for it.”
“I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.”

Source : "TEEN WOLF Season 5 PaleyFest Interview: Dylan O’Brien, Tyler Posey, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2015.
“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Source : "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.
“We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.”
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450
“The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
“Islam is not a set of rules. Itâ€™s a way of seeing life and the world.”

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