"... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Crazy Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Taste Quotes

“Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert”
“I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.”
“While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.”
“Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.”
“Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.”
“You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.”
“Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.”
“Your company does not belong inmarkets where it cannot be the best.”

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