"I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go."

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Source : Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

Monique Wittig

#Letting Go Quotes #Passion Quotes #Intelligence Quotes

“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”
“The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.”
“What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.”

Source : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”
“When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.”
“I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.”
“I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!”
“Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.”

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