"All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Sacred Quotes #Affection Quotes #Habit Quotes

“The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...”

Source : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”

Source : Theocritus, Bion (of Phlossa near Smyrna.), Moschus, Tyrtaeus (1822). “The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And the Elegies of Tyrtaeus”, p.31
“Religion is a mixed blessing.”
“Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.”
“That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.”
“Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.”
“Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press
“I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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