"The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Character Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Self Quotes

“I believe in angels, so it's simple.”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.”

Source : "Soule & Venditti Fight Over Sector 2814 In 'Green Lantern/Red Lanterns'". Interview with Josie Campbell, www.cbr.com. December 19, 2013.
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
“I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.”
“My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.”
“An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic.”
“Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”

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