"It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Believe Quotes #Desire Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

Source : FaceBook post by Don Roff from Aug 30, 2013
“The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.”
“Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.”
“Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.”
“Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.”
“The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.”
“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”

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