"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."

-- David McCullough

#Writing Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Awful Quotes

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

Source : 'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'
“When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.”
“To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.”
“Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)”
“I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!”
“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”

Source : "God is Not Cast Down". Book by Kazimir Malevich, 1922.

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