"I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago."

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Lillian Hellman

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.”
“I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I still haven't quite gauged the effects of featuring designers on my blog and on Dazed. I can only rely on what people feed back to me ... the effects are positive though - designers picking up more buyers, entering into new collaborations, getting more orders.... it's all really, really encouraging.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.”

Source : Sheng-yen, Shengyan (1996). “Dharma drum: the life and heart of Chʻan practice”, Dharma Drum Pubns
“The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.”
“Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.”

Source : "Snowriders". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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