I Quotes
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“In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.”
“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.”
“In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.”
“In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "I threw it against the wall!" Which, in my opinion, was a compliment. Because it's very hard to get somebody to throw something.”
“In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.”
“In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?”
“In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.”
“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
“In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.”
“In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.”
“In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."”
“In my years as a civil rights lawyer, I have seen virtually all the same cycle in city after city: Politicians respond to the fallout from an incident of police violence by pledging various "reforms" that are either meaningless or things the police had been asking for anyway. These pledges are followed by increases in police budgets. Overall police violence grows, and the cycle repeats.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.”
“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.”
“In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.”
“In my years of working in theatre and TV I've learnt that my main skill is not the instrumental playing but the idea of what to play and my interest for so many kinds of music. Often people ask me to contribute to projects when they don't stay in just one genre. I feel more like a composer who just has to play his own things.”
“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
Source: Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
“In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.
The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.
This is invaluable for an artist.
Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."
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Source: The War Of Art
“In my younger days, I craved for love more than I craved for weed. Then I realised that weed is easier to get than love.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.”
“In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.”
“In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.”
“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"”
“In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.”
“In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.”
“In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.”
“In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.”
“In my youth I hoped for no higher status in life than to be among those who would follow in the wake of Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, and Bernard Gillam, outstanding artists in the field of political caricature. And when in my early twenties I grew familiar with the political and social satires of the graphic artists of England and France across two centuries, these gave even greater stimulus to my ambition. Dreamily I anticipated that my destiny was to succeed as a caricaturist of some influence in public affairs.”
Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.”
“In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.”
Source: Adventures of a Younger Son
“In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.”
“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
“In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“In my youth, I swore I dreamed too much, but that isn't so.”
Source: Never a Cloud
“In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.”
“In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.”
“In my youth, I was always touched by what I couldn't see.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“In my youth
I was nurtured upon the bitter bread of tension,
each breath seasoned by unquiet nights
and guarded dawns.
Thus did my flesh learn
to thrive on the restless pulse of worry,
finding sustenance in the very chaos
that frayed its edges.”
Source: VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind
“In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.”
“In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.”
“In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, “I wish Fate hadn’t made me this sort of man.”
Source: Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'”
“In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.”
“In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings
“In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.”
“In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.”
“In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.”