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“As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.”

Loses Fate Worst Ordinary Contact

Author:Mary McCarthy

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.”

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Author:Frank Smythe

“I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.”

Persons Made Wanted Lasts Loses Effort Class Middle Ordinary Middle Class Accents Cambridge Remnants Great Effort Cockneys

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.”

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Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”

Men Loses Greatness Ordinary Gains Great Men Fierce Ordinary Man Greatness Of Man

Book:Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

Source: Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

“I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.”

Running Bits Loses Stage Personality Creating Ordinary Flight Sensations Wraps Sanctuary Ordinary Life Losing Yourself

Author:Florence Welch

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

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Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”

People World Way May Sometimes Light Pain Spirit Suffering Force Loses Answers Powerful Healing Darkness Too Much This World Ordinary Sight Extraordinary Encounters Ordinary People

Author:Mother Teresa

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro