"I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing."

-- Warsan Shire

#Body Quotes #Burning Quotes #Longing Quotes

“I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.”

Source : "Notorious: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata spill personal details". Interview with Nina Terrero, ew.com. September 19, 2016.
“There's something nice and safe about having money.”
“There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.”

Source : Keith Lehrer (1978). “Knowledge”, Oxford University Press
“Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.”
“O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?”
“Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.”

Source : "ABC's Joy Behar: Bush Administration 'Liars' and 'Murderers'" by Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. February 28, 2007.
“First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 21, 2013

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