"Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life."

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Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L-bas (Down There).”, p.213, Courier Corporation

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.”
“We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.”
“Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.”
“The present order is the disorder of the future.”

Source : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?”
“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.”
“No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

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