"Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't."

-- Carson McCullers

#Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.”
“I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.”
“It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.”
“A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.”
“Michael Cole is a visionary!”
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.”
“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”
“Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.”

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