"Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?"

-- David Markson

#Solitude Quotes #Anxious Quotes #Persons Quotes

“It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.”
“You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.”
“You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.”
“[Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.”
“Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable”
“I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.”
“You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing whatâ€™s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.”

Source : “‘Don’t give a sh—‘ and other valuable advice from Charlie Day to grads” by Brenna Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2014.
“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.”

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