"All I've done all my life is disobey."

-- Edith Piaf

#Done Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan”
“One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
“I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”
“Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.”
“The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
“I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.”
“My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.”
“To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.308, Penguin

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