"There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Art Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Years Quotes

“No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes..”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.11, Penguin UK
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.”
“I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.”
“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”
“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings”
“I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2010). “The Gin Closet”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.”
“It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.”

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