"Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Appreciation Quotes #Art Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.”

Source : "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.
“We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of oneâ€™s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.”
“To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.”
“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
“This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing ***** were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.”
“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”
“God grants an easy death only to the just.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.14, HarperCollins
“Even when Iâ€™m in the dark Iâ€™m in the dark with you.”

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