"But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ..."

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Source : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

Charlotte Charke

#Friendship Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.”
“The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.”
“We can't always take the most obvious road in life.”
“Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.”
“No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing
“What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.”

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