"You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too."

-- Irvine Welsh

#Needs Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Realism Quotes

“I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.”
“There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.”
“I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.”
“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.”
“Uphill, downhill, I like that.”
“OK, here's a little bedroom tip: Put a bag of popcorn in the microwave beforehand. That way when you're done, you have a treat.”
“The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.”
“Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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