"Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer."

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Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

Henry Roth

#Book Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You donâ€™t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.”
“The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.”
“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.”
“I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.”
“Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.”
“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
“True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.”

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