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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Thursday, January 22, 2004
06:04 a.m.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. - Archibald Leach
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. - - Archibald Leach [Cary Grant]
Sunday, January 18, 2004
06:12 a.m.
The more serious you are as a writer, the more you feel yourself an outsider. - William Kennedy
Friday, January 16, 2004
05:59 a.m.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin
Thursday, January 15, 2004
06:20 a.m.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - Henry James
Sunday, January 11, 2004
08:39 a.m.
Why be yourself if you can be somebody interesting? Imagine a life. Imagine yourself being something other than what you are. - Philip Levine
Saturday, January 10, 2004
06:36 a.m.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctrow
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
06:00 a.m.
May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, and lead to the most amazing view. -Edward Abbey
Friday, January 2, 2004
03:12 p.m.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -Mark Twain
Thursday, December 18, 2003
06:02 a.m.
Even the worst artist that ever was, even a one-eyed mental deficient with the shakes in both hands who sets out to paint the chicken-house, can enjoy the first stroke. Can think, By God, look what I've done. A miracle. Must be one of the keenest pleasures open to mankind. It's certainly the greatest an artist can have. It's also the only one. And it doesn't last long, usually about five minutes. - Joycs Cary
Sunday, December 7, 2003
05:50 a.m.
It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence, — that which makes its truth, its meaning — its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream — alone. - Joseph Conrad
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
05:57 a.m.
First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. - T.C.Boyle
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
05:54 a.m.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen
Monday, December 1, 2003
06:08 a.m.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Samuel Clemens
Sunday, November 30, 2003
08:16 a.m.
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