"It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were."

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Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

Neil Simon

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Giving Quotes

“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
“I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.”
“You didnt access love, love accessed you!”
“I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.”
“Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.”

Source : "My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician". Book by Lon Milo DuQuette, 1999.
“The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.”

Source : David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK
“The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.”
“You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.”

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