"Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers."

-- Billy Collins

#People Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Offers Quotes

“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
“I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.”
“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.”
“Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.”

Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet
“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”
“No wife, no horse, no mustache”
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”
“Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.”

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