"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.”
“I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.”
“I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.”
“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”
“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.”

Source : "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.
“I love challenging the status quo.”
“I don't release many records just as "Fennesz," so when I do, I want to plan everything in detail. It's not that I want to really lead the listener somewhere; it's more about me being satisfied with a project.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.”

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