"neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves -- that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night -- so the rope, paper, knife."

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Source : Tadeusz Borowski, Larry Rafferty (1990). “Selected poems”

Tadeusz Borowski

#Love Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Sleep Quotes

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“A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.”
“All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”
“Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.”
“Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.”
“I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

Source : Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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