"I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time."

-- Anne Carson

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
“A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.”
“A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.”
“(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.”
“* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.”
“A book can never be anything more than the impression of its authorâ€™s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter â€” that is to say, what he has thought about it.”
“Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
“I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.”

Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone (1893). “The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798; Ed. with an Introduction by R. Barry O'Brien”

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