"All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful."

-- Veronica Roth

#Pain Quotes #Son Quotes #Dull Quotes

“To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.”
“For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'”
“In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.”

Source : Michael Showalter (2011). “Mr. Funny Pants”, p.117, Hachette UK
“When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.”
“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.”

Source : Bret Harte (1904). “The Writings of Bret Harte”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
“In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.”
“If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.”

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