"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."

-- Elbert Hubbard

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“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”
“What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.”

Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". Interview with Johannah Rodgers, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.
“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”
“When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.”
“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”
“With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.21, Penguin UK
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”

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