"The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start!"

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Source : "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.

Jhonen Vasquez

#Tired Quotes #Decay Quotes #Fine Quotes

“Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.174, Univ of California Press
“Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.”
“The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.”
“I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.”
“Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.”
“I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.”

Source : Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage
“You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.”
“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”

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