Albert Camus Quotes

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Fresh

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Couple
  • Years
  • Flight

• I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Blow

• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Bigs
  • Vacation

• Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Children
  • Too Much
  • Ruined

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Water
  • Jump
  • Stills

• Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Promise

• I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Color
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Should
  • Abuse

• Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Responsibility
  • Interest
  • Judgment

• I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • motivation
  • Judgment
  • Girls

• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Felt
  • Wounds

• Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judgment
  • Wait
  • Take Place