"To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Real Quotes #Disease Quotes #Honest Quotes

“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
“If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.”
“Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.”
“Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.”
“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”
“The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.”
“Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.”
“It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.”

Source : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.

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