"For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Persistence Quotes #Long Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.”
“There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.”
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
“I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you subscribe to the idea that #â€Ž addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think”
“I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.”
“Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify.”

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