"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."

-- Italo Calvino

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Body Quotes

“If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.
“When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.”
“We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.”
“I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.”
“Silence is the essential condition of happiness.”

Source : Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”
“By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,”
“Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?”

Source : Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.31, Macmillan

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