"Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing."

-- Anne Carson

#Writing Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Night Quotes

“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.”
“People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.”
“Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.”
“I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.”
“I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.”
“Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.”
“Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis doesn't want children with George Clooney". www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2011.

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