"We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life."

-- Harold Bloom

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
“Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.”
“I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?”
“I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.”
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

Source : "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.
“Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.”
“Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”
“I believe itâ€™s important to stay young at heart, to have faith in what might seem impossible and to have goals beyond your current abilities or temporary means.”

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