"I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work."

-- Vikram Seth

#Reputation Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf
“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”
“Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
“I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.”
“I just have to be me.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
“Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts”
“Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.”

Source : Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.

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