"Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasyâ€”â€œto stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away."

-- Bell Hooks

#Fall Quotes #Passion Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.”

Source : Abraham Pais (2014). “A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed.”
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, New Harbinger Publications
“We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!”
“Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.”
“I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.”
“Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.”
“I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.”

Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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