"I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding."

-- A.M. Homes

#Crazy Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press
“Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.”
“God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.”
“I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.”
“Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.”
“Get that strait jacket that Heidenreich had and put it on Lita!”
“The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.”

Source : Robert Charles Winthrop (1886). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1878-1886”
“End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.”

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