"Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time."

-- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Girl Quotes #Important Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.”
“Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.”

Source : "Song: 'Cannonball'". 2002.
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
“I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.”

Source : "When I was four, I knew I was weird", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.
“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind”
“I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.”

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