"I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through."

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Source : "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

Peter Straub

#Fate Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Wade Quotes

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”
“I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.”

Source : Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.47
“As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.”

Source : John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn
“The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.”
“The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.”

Source : Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.20, Penguin
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
“For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.”
“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”

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