"When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for thingsâ€”as opposed to making things upâ€”that did not quite happen."

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Source : Geoff Dyer (2007). “Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It”, p.13, Vintage

Geoff Dyer

#Lonely Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”

Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.197, Univ of California Press
“Do it, fix it, try it.”
“True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.”
“It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press
“Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.”

Source : Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons
“You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.”

Source : "Wayne Rooney Q&A - my time is now". Daily Mail Interview, worldfootball.dailymail.co.uk. June 19, 2012.
“I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.”
“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”

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