"What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light."

-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

#Pain Quotes #Passion Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.”
“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”
“I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.”
“One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.”
“But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug? I know some thugs and they know I'm the farthest thing from a thug.”
“I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?”
“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.7, Macmillan
“It's very demanding to make up your own music.”

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