"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose."

-- Boris Pasternak

#Complicated Quotes #Immensity Quotes #Prose Quotes

“My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.”
“Not to have an audience is a kind of death.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.44, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.”
“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”

Source : 1984 One Writer's Beginnings, III. 'Finding a Voice'.
“I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.”
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan
“All doors open to courtesy.”
“You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32”

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