"The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish."

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Marianne Moore

#Believe Quotes #Joy Quotes #Wish Quotes

“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.”

Source : Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.”
“True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.”
“I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.”
“I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The roots of my music start from the ghetto.”
“She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.”

Source : Anne Edwards (1988). “A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn”, Pocket
“I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.”

Source : "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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