"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Thoughtful Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes

“I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.”
“I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier the jazz, the better. Anything with singing is a distraction. Listening to classical music tends to have the unconscious effect of making my writing too smooth.”
“There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.”
“A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.”
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]”
“Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.”
“Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.”

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