"I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro."

-- Britta Phillips

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes #Coming Out Quotes

“The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing”
“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.”

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.148, Vintage
“Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.”
“Reality is always so obstructive.”

Source : Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!”
“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”
“Politicians neither love nor hate.”
“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”

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