"If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Giving Up Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.”
“Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.”

Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.129, University of Texas Press
“Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”
“I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.”
“I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.”
“We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?”
“I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.”
“She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I donâ€™t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.”

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