"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Believe Quotes #Mind Quotes #Habit Quotes

“I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.”

Source : "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.
“It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.”
“[Abdellatif LaÃ¢bi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."”
“I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.”
“I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can't just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.”

Source : Source: www.acclaimmag.com
“It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.”
“The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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