"I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money."

-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Self Quotes #Giving Quotes #Done Quotes

“Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.”
“Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.”
“A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.81, Canongate Books
“Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.”
“I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.”
“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.”
“The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.”
“Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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