"Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it."

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Don Roff

#Expectations Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.”
“Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.”
“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”
“Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.”
“Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.”
“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

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