"If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . ."

-- Muriel Spark

#Cat Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.”
“Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.”
“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”
“In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.”

Source : Rude Pravo, 19 July 1968.
“I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nobody run off with her,â€ Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.”

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