"There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Practice Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Sorcery Quotes

“The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and shot himself. Nicklaus got up the next morning and shot 66.”
“Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.”
“A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.”
“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”
“I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.”
“I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.”

Source : "On Language; CLASS CLEAVAGE" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 1986.
“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”
“An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.”

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