“I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.
Voces (1943)
Tie Me Up! Untie Me!
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.
Voces (1943)
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Marty (1955)
Context: All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
Marty Pilletti.
Stella Vine (1969) English artist
Mansfield, Karl. "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n15873617, The Independent, (2005-11-28) <br class="br">On age.
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”
James Patterson book Kiss the Girls
Source: Kiss the Girls