"We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time."

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Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.9, Macmillan

Sheila Heti

#Men Quotes #Waste Quotes #Bores Quotes

“Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.”
“When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”
“Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.”
“I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.”
“Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing
“Anything that you [as an actor] can change about yourself for a part is helpful.”
“As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.”
“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

Source : Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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