"I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder...."

-- Denise Levertov

#Truth Quotes #Light Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.”
“One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.”
“Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motormanâ€™s glove.”
“I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.”
“The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome”
“One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.”
“Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.”
“You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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