"It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Notebook Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.”
“We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”
“In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.”
“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”
“History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.
“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”
“don't take many words to break a fragile heart!”
“If you want a definition of what a coward is, itâ€™s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.”

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