"A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle."

-- Susan Minot

#Struggle Quotes #Persons Quotes

“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.”
“I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.”
“Itâ€™s not what you are that counts, itâ€™s what they think you are.”
“There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.”
“Oneâ€™s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is lifeâ€™s work.”
“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”
“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.”

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