"Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Everyday beauty. I cry for how life intoxicates. And maybe just a little for how swiftly it runs."

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Source : Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.25, Algonquin Books

Marlena De Blasi

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #Twilight Quotes

“Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.”
“My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”
“My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.”
“In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.”

Source : Giovanni Boccaccio (1972). “The Decameron”, Penguin Books
“I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
“The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.”
“I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.”

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