"No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid."

-- Irwin Shaw

#Sorry Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.”
“My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.”
“The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.”

Source : "Will underachieving and being directionless alienate me from people?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.
“Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.”
“Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.”
“On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”

Source : My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)
“The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.”

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