"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."

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Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

Jack Abbott

#Anger Quotes #Moments Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”
“Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.”

Source : James T. Farrell (2001). “Studs Lonigan”, p.22, Penguin
“I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.”
“If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.”
“It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.”

Source : "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Two), 1997.
“I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.”
“I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.”
“Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.”

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