#abandon

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#believe #degrees #destiny #does #fate

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #cars #depression #during #garage

I've never abandoned the novel. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #never #novel

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#any #around #circles #each #ever

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#adult #appeared #audience #audiences #cinemas

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. ↗

— Mark Webber

#buildings #i #mother #over #sleep

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#character #crime #pays #price #society

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cry #fear #infant #rage

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards