"The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves."

-- Anais Nin

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“I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.”
“Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.”
“The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.”
“It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.128
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011
“Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.”
“I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.”

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