"I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet."
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"You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed."
"The Downside of Stuff {Couplet) I got what I want;I have what I need.But they want what I have,and they'll make me bleed."
"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."
"Object of Desire A woman knows she's the object of a unknown man's desirelike a game animal becoming aware it is being looked at."
"What’s the opposite of start? Would the average person think stop or finish? The answer may reflect the difference between a winner and a loser."
"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
"We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering."
"Come on,"I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear."
"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
"Ars Poetica: Write Poetry on a Black Slate Poetry should be written on a black slate of imagination,the poet artfully allowing images to emerge from the dark."
"The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing."
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others."
"Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary."
"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
"Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen."
"I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair."
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."
"A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose."
"Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen."
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