"It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way."

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Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

Christopher Morley

#Running Quotes #Science Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.”
“I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.”
“beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6
“Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him.”
“Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
“There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?”

Source : Donna Levin (1996). “Get That Novel Written!”, Writers Digest Books
“we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.”
“Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.”

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