"Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Purpose Quotes #Genius Quotes #Fine Quotes

“The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.”
“He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.”
“His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.”

Source : Steven Millhauser (2011). “We Others: New & Selected Stories”, p.238, Vintage
“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Source : Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302
“"I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, 'Oh, God, my legs hurt.' I'd be like, 'Your legs hurt? I'm getting mine amputated next week.' And that's actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, 'God, that's such a shame about Jennifer's legs.' She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, 'I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.' Now I can't lie.”
“Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.”

Source : Ron Franscell (2000). “Angel Fire”, Berkley
“He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on.”
“If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.”

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