"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."

-- W. H. Auden

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.”
“If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.”
“Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!”

Source : Lady Jane Grey, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1825). “The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.”, p.92
“There's always beauty, if you know where to look.”
“International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
“If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.”

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