"You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable."

-- James Salter

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Everything comes too late for those who only wait.”
“I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.”
“The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization”
“You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).”
“The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.”
“The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.”

Source : "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.”
“Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

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