"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."

-- Greg Egan

#Suffering Quotes #Quality Quotes #Way Quotes

“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.Â I am quite sincere about some of the things that people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which most people take seriously.Â In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.”
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.21, Vintage
“I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I liked being in the spotlight.”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.”
“My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”

Source : "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann. Chapter 7, 1924.

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