"Savor the imminent weirdness of the day."

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Source : Charles Baxter (2011). “Gryphon: New and Selected Stories”, p.169, Vintage

Charles Baxter

#Weirdness Quotes

“Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.”

Source : Eric Gamalinda (2000). “My sad republic”
“We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.”
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
“...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.”
“If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.”
“I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.”
“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists Â– in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244
“Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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