"Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water."

-- Fernand Leger

#Men Quotes #Fire Quotes #Color Quotes

“Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.”

Source : Helen Dunmore (2008). “Your Blue-Eyed Boy”, p.217, Penguin UK
“Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2016
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”

Source : "The Fiery Fountains" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1951.
“I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.”
“Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.172, Penguin
“Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.”
“At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.”
“lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.”

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