"Life is sad enough without people writing sad books."

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Source : James T. Farrell (2001). “Studs Lonigan”, p.464, Penguin

James T. Farrell

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
“There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.”
“What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.”
“Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.”
“To retire is the beginning of death.”
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
“If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.”
“I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.”

Source : Interview with Frances Colpitt, www.artpace.org.

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