"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Lonely Quotes #Halloween Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve...”
“Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.”
“The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if weâ€™re lucky.”
“The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.”
“I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.”
“I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.”
“The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.”
“Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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