462 Quotes About Has-beens

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.