"I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that."

-- Anne Rice

#Country Quotes #Doubt Quotes #American Writer Quotes

“My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.”
“I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”
“It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.”

Source : Robert Hugh Benson (2012). “The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary”, p.35, tredition
“I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.”
“For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society”
“Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.”

Source : Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.
“For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.”

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