“I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.”
The quote "I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself." is famous quote attributed to Joseph Stalin (1879–1953), General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Remark to Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan as quoted in "Khrushchev: Notes from a Forbidden Land", http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904531-4,00.html Time, 30 November 1970, citing the publication of an installment of Khrushchev's reminiscences in Life that week.
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“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Quoted in "POP/JAZZ; A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind" http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/arts/pop-jazz-a-wiser-voice-blowin-in-the-autumn-wind.html by Jon Pareles, The New York Times (28 September 1997)
“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I am complete but I'm not finished.”
Steve Maraboli
(1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 155
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Después de tanto huir de las cosas hechas, me he encontrado yo mismo una cosa hecha. Y sigo huyendo de las cosas hechas.
Voces (1943)
Caitlín R. Kiernan
(1964) writer
(29 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: At some point, I stopped and made the following note to myself: I have never finished a story. I'm beginning to see that now. I don't think that there's ever a point where a story or novel is just exactly right. There are only finer and lesser degrees of refinement, and even those are probably subjective. You might think it's perfect for a time, but read it a year or five years later, and you'll see you were mistaken. There's always something I can make better, every time I read one of my stories. Usually there are dozens of somethings. And I once thought this wasn't true, that a story reached a certain point and beyond that point you were only changing things, making them different, not making them better. Indeed, I thought, beyond a point, you risk screwing it all up. I don't think that anymore. You risk screwing it all up right from the start, and no story is ever as perfect as it can be. Perfection is always one or two polishes away from the writer.
“I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.”
James A. Garfield
(1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 595
