Josephine Preston Peabody famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
When one door opens, so does another one.
Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
Tut, Tut, looks like rain
I don't look at myself as suffering.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

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