"Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it."

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Source : Elizabeth Bear (2006). “The Chains That You Refuse”, Nightshade Book

Elizabeth Bear

#Frustration Quotes #Able Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”
“Do what you love and love what you do. Donâ€™t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.”
“I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.”

Source : "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.
“There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.”
“It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.”
“Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.”

Source : "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 222), 1988.
“When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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