"The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies."

-- John Dryden

#Writing Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Vices Quotes

“You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.”
“Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.”
“I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.”
“If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.”
“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.”
“Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.”
“In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.”

Source : "Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa".

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