"I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Girl Quotes #Reading Quotes #Long Quotes

“Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is.”
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
“He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.”
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press
“Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low”

Source : "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.
“If it doesn't make the world better - don't do it.”
“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”
“Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.”

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