"You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?"

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Believe Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Worry Quotes

“It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.”

Source : Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida
“The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.”
“I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.”
“I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Deahl, www.publishersweekly.com. September 10, 2009.
“I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.”
“It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.”
“It's weird watching President Bush struggle with excuses for why we went to war. As he struggles, it reminds us all what a terrific liar Bill Clinton really was.”
“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”

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