"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."

-- Saul Bellow

#Book Quotes #Sunset Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.”
“It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.”
“If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.”
“To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goalsâ€”to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may beâ€”and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.”
“Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses Even as her words cut deep, I can't deny the truth in them On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly So directionless, I head into oblivion And then I decide to give another random memory To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea Oh Isabell, you always understood me Please Isabell, forgive me now”
“As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.”

Source : The Queen v. Bishop of London, L. R. 23 Q. B. 452, 1889.
“I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.”

Source : "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Holistic London Guide Interview, www.urigeller.com. Winter/Spring, 1997.
“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”

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