"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."

-- James Dickey

#Fever Quotes #Want Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.”
“Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.”

Source : Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”
“Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
“Always destroy what is in you.”
“The best we can do is lean towards the light.”
“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
“If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.”
“My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.”

Source : Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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