"I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#People Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.”
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.”
“He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.”
“Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.”

Source : "All in the Family". Time Magazine, June 26, 2006.
“The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.16, Penguin
“If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
“A wig is a wig is a wig.”
“Here's to the State of Mississippi,”

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