"Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty."

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Source : 'Pater Noster'

Jacques Prevert

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Father Quotes

“Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.”
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.”
“I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.”
“The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.”
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (1981). “Doctor Faustus”, Signet Classics
“Too many kings can ruin an army”
“My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.”

Source : "Music to the ears". www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.
“You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.”

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