"I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.”
“God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.”
“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
“A man's character is his fate.”
“I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.”
“What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.”
“Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.”
“Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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