"Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Journey Quotes #Quests Quotes #Briars Quotes

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

Source : Teri Hatcher (2006). “Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life”, p.41, Hachette UK
“Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?”
“I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.”
“What's wrong with being number two?”
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadnâ€™t read it now.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.”
“When I read studentsâ€™ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.”
“As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.”

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