"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

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Source : "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

Jack Kerouac

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.”
“There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.”
“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.227, Broadway Books
“At first Disco Night wasn't meant to be a book, although I'm always thinking about that in the back of my mind. It started off as a series of exploratory road trips that I was doing with Christian Hansen, who I dedicated the book to.”
“I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on my stomach. I have to be mad to be working well anyway, and then I am mad about the way things are going on the page in addition. My ulcer flourishes and I have to chew lots of pills. When my work is going well, I am usually sort of sick.”
“The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.”
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.”
“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 29, 2013

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