"To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation."

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Natalie Clifford Barney

#Style Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.”
“The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.”
“We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.”
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.... Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

Source : "Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton". Book by Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan, p. 88, 1988.
“I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally becomeâ€¦ This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House
“The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.”
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”

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