"To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful."

-- David James Duncan

#Grateful Quotes #Book Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.”
“After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.”
“You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.”

Source : Fred Lebow (1994). “New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running”, Random House Reference
“The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.”
“I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.”
“I was always fascinated with people and places and seeing things I didn't know about.”
“A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.”
“It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.”

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