"Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Beautiful Quotes #Block Quotes #Past Quotes

“Every morning I wake up and see my beautiful wife is like a gift. She gave me the gift of love and gorgeous wonderful babies.”
“Talking's just a nervous habit.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2013). “The Deer Leap”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
“When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.”

Source : "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.
“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”
“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.”

Source : Interview withMax Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.
“I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.”
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
“You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?”

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