"Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Writing Quotes #Sick Quotes #Drink Quotes

“Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.”
“What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”
“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”
“I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.”
“I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.”
“I buy when other people are selling.”
“It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.”

Source : Jenny Diski (2013). “Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions”, p.268, Picador
“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”

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