"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor."

-- Carl Sandburg

#New Year Quotes #Party Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.”

Source : "James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133". Interview with Edward Hirsch, www.theparisreview.org. 1993.
“What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.”
“If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.”
“But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.”
“I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.”

Source : Dick Francis (2010). “Comeback”, p.16, Penguin
“Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.183, Oxford University Press
“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.138
“Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.”

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