"I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.”
“Theyâ€™re not womenâ€™s clothes. Theyâ€™re my clothes. I bought them.”
“Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.”

Source : "Christopher Heyerdahl Talks HELL ON WHEELS and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2011.
“I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.”

Source : Mark Tobey, Arthur L. Dahl (1984). “Mark Tobey, art and belief”, George Ronald Pub Ltd
“If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president Donald Trump has. And it is not unusual for a president to set up some competing power centers, as Ronald Reagan did, but there`s nothing like being the chief of staff, which has so much say over what the president reads, who the president sees, who`s the last person the president talks to before he makes a decision.”
“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heardâ€¦”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”
“the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”

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