"I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running."

-- Warsan Shire

#Running Quotes #War Quotes #Smell Quotes

“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
“Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.”
“Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?”
“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.”
“We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.”
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.”
“They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.”
“Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1840). “A soliloquy on the art of man-fishing. Repr”, p.23

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