"Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Expectations Quotes #Personality Quotes #Excitement Quotes

“I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!”
“And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?”
“It's not important to me that people understand me.”
“It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.”
“A thought will color a world for us.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.”
“Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, " ' In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' "”

Source : "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, February 23, 2010.
“I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message.”

Source : "Danny Brown: Top Underdog" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. September 23, 2013.

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