"How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!"

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Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Book Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.”

Source : Song: If the South Woulda Won
“Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.”
“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.”
“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and itâ€™s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.”
“I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.”
“[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter ...”
“We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.”
“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”

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