Betterment Quotes (page 71)

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• food
• feeling
• both

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. Kurt Vonnegut

• work
• accounting
• moments

In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies--they know better. Arthur Miller

• wishes
• balance
• saying

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the... Nick Hornby

• fall
• writing
• thoughts

I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. Ernest Hemingway

• short
• thinking
• world

It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so many kinds of interaction between humans, and so many ways of creating patterns in the novel that can’t be created in a short story, a play, a poem or a movie. The novel, simply, offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better, including the world of... Don DeLillo

• cannons
• shots
• than

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. Hunter S. Thompson

• walking
• book
• forever

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the... Ray Bradbury

• book
• feeling
• feelings

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. Jane Smiley

• good
• wisdom
• goodly

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. Anne Bradstreet

• writing
• writings
• better

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all Charles Bukowski

• die
• most
• us

in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck Charles Bukowski

• life
• imagination
• willfulness

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Richard Bach

• life
• serious
• forceful

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. Hunter S. Thompson

• eyes
• better
• close

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray Justin Bieber

• cake
• feeling
• true

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. Dave Barry