Quotes - Charles A. Bush (charlesabush) (Philadelphia, PA) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19424 likes

#2

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2181 likes

#3

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165239 likes

#4

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12724 likes

#5

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

18044 likes

#6

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127132 likes

#7

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

1894 likes

#8

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

7847 likes

#9

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5878 likes

#10

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom

2657 likes

#11

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20250 likes

#12

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22048 likes

#13

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

tags: music

887 likes

#14

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

tags: genius, love

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