Quotes About Struggle

These are hard times. Imperial death-pangs are never pleasant; and it seems we find ourselves in the midst of the geo-political playground when the empire is thrashing about in a vain attempt to maintain its idolatrous pursuit of wealth and power, seeking to be "great again," seeking to demonize those whose own violence it fears.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

A vice is a failure of desire.

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

Darrow was obviously struggling to create a story where there wasn't one yet. Eve didn't blame her for that. If Eve had her way, Darrow wouldn't have to wait long. Every corpse, even one that was just scattered bones for now, had a story. It was Eve's job to find it.

Jen ended up as a single parent with three children fathered by three different men who were in the entertainment industry, too. Eve spent her teenage years trying to bring order to the chaos at home, raising her two younger siblings while her mom was off chasing roles and men. Eve resented her mother, her absentee father, and Hollywood for stealing her childhood.

He let go of the poker and scrambled away.

Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")

Things happen in your life that leave an imprint. Injustice left the deepest imprint on mine.

It was my biggest fear to go crazy like my mom. I worried about waking up one day and no longer understanding reality in quite the same way, being lost in the black hole of madness.

almost all people who hurt themselves on purpose do so at least in part to regulate their emotions.

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

This is how mankind has always thought of the enemy — as the one who, if you do not kill him first, will sooner or later kill you.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

in a snap the world can fall dwon around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

Landlords are enemies of the workers," Hansu said.

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...

There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.