"Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?"

-- Rick Moody

#Love Quotes #Running Quotes #Fall Quotes

“The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.”
“I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”
“Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2014). “Metaphysical Dog: Poems”, p.22, Macmillan
“So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.”

Source : Maurice Thompson (1928). “The witchery of archery”, p.8, Рипол Классик
“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”
“A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.932, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.”

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