"I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?"

-- Leon Wieseltier

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Said Quotes

“Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.”
“we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.”
“If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.”
“It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.”

Source : Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.”
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”
“You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.”

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