"Iâ€™m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me â€“ my neck, say, or my knee â€“ and Iâ€™d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldnâ€™t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. Weâ€™d come so close, do you see, that I wouldnâ€™t be surprised out of myself every time you touched."

-- Jamie O'Neill

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.”
“Rich could play way better than Krupa.”
“Poetry increases the feeling for reality.”
“No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.”
“To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.”
“Hard work isn't enough. You got to believe”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 16, 2012
“Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.”
“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

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