"I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge."

-- August Kleinzahler

#Guy Quotes #Madness Quotes #Meatballs Quotes

“Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?”
“There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.”
“You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.”
“I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.45, London : R. Bentley
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
“To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.”
“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if itâ€™s worth it.”

Source : Diane Chamberlain (2013). “Necessary Lies”, p.306, Macmillan

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