"The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Hammocks Quotes #Stories Quotes #Yeats Quotes

“The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.”
“To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.”
“It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had ruined my life, in a kind of quiet way--a little lie, probably not so vital, insidiously separating me from everyone I loved.”
“Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write”
“Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.”
“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.”
“He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.”
“When I'm out in the water surfing, it clears my mind and it makes me want to play music and write music, and then when I'm playing a lot of music and touring, I can't wait to get in the water again and surf. So, I'm striving to find that perfect balance, and it's all good.”

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