"The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Giving Quotes #Forever Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.”
“We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.”
“If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”
“For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.”
“The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.”
“I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.”

Source : Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr
“I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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