"In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."

-- John Steinbeck

#Loneliness Quotes #Trying Quotes #Literature Quotes

“But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future,”
“I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”
“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”
“It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.”

Source : R.D. BLACKMORE (1889). “LORNA DOONE”
“I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.”
“Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.”
“I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.”

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