"Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it."

-- Erica Jong

#Believe Quotes #Elements Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes

“What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.”
“The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.”
“Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.”
“For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.”
“If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen?”
“I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.”
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”
“People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.”

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