"The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."

-- Robert Benchley

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesnt mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.”
“A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”
“The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.”
“Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.”
“If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pearsâ€¦”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press
“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”
“I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.”
“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”

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