"To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Suffering Quotes #Needs Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!”
“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
“Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.”
“Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.”
“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

Source : "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton
“Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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