"The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer."

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Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

Lydia Millet

#Sweet Quotes #Grief Quotes #Heart Quotes

“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”

Source : 1899 The Awakening, ch.6.
“My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.”
“I refuse, whenever possible, to do shows on a Monday. I don't do gigs on a Monday, because nobody laughs on Mondays. Everybody wants Monday to be over. I just won't do 'em. But the rest of the time, in all honesty, it doesn't matter where you are: if something's funny, people laugh.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”
“Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.”
“At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.”
“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”

Source : Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

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