"I don't wish power, only art -art and passion."

-- Anais Nin

#Art Quotes #Passion Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.”
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
“I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.”
“Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.”
“Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.”
“All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.”
“We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, itâ€™s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.”
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”

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