"We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober."

-- Mary Renault

#Drunk Quotes #Matter Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.”
“I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.”
“Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder”

Source : Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books
“People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.”

Source : Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”
“I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.”
“President Obama answered questions on YouTube today. He was asked 7,500 times about legalizing marijuana. And that was just from Chad in Portland.”
“I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!”
“grievance does not make for great art.”

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