"The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Heart Quotes #Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”
“Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.”
“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”
“It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”
“I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.”
“You have this way of making me feel like I can fly.”
“There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.”
“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brainâ€”the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashedâ€”then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.”

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