"What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

William Gilmore Simms

#May Quotes #Stones Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.”

Source : 1912 Subscription prospectus of the Blaue Reiter Almanac, Jan.
“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”
“No. One. Comes. Before You.”
“To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.”
“Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.”
“There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2016). “Horrible Imaginings”, p.93, Hachette UK
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death â€“ fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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