"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

-- Harold Brodkey

#Reality Quotes #Illumination Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.”
“She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.”

Source : Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.51, Penguin
“All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.”
“If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.”
“Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.”
“I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “Penetralia”
“I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.”

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