"I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ***** of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations."

-- Alice James

#Writing Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.”
“Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.”
“You lead me and keep me from falling. You carry me close to Your heart. And surely Your goodness and mercy will follow me.”

Source : Song: All The Way My Savior Leads Me, Album: Hello Love, 2008
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”

Source : Jorge Luis Borges (2011). “Poesía completa”, p.140, DEBOLS!LLO
“Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.”
“I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.”
“The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.”

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