Walter Mason Camp Quotes
It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
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You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
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Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
