Master Misery Quotes

#1. She spent the rest of the way home despising New York: anonymity, in virtuous terror; and the squeaking drainpipe, all-night light, ceaseless footfall, subway corridor, numbered door (3C).
('Master Misery')

Truman Capote

#2. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

#3. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#4. The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo

#5. My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

Michael Lesy

#6. They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

Bill Brandt

#8. The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

Maynard Amerine

#10. Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

John Seabrook

#11. It is time to give ourselves to the Master and allow Him to lead us into fruitful fields where we can enrich a world filled with darkness and misery. Each of us, no matter who we are, no matter where we serve, must arise and make the most of each opportunity that comes.

Mary Ellen W. Smoot

#12. The first book I opened looked promising - Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage.

R.L. LaFevers

#13. The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.

Dolph Schayes

#14. See with your soul and not your eyes
because to dance with the beasts you
must penetrate their disguise.

P.C. Cast

#15. We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Jean De La Bruyere