Marcel Proust Quotes
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Quotes to Explore
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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I have learned how to better handle things as they come.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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If you call yourself Money, you better show up money.
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From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
