"Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

#Passion Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
“What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.”
“For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.”
“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
“I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you canâ€™t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.”
“When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.”

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