"At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door."

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Source : Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

Kalisha Buckhanon

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Blue Quotes

“I only wish I had more time for fund raising.”
“Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.”

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.118
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”
“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests”
“Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”
“I'm the man of a million names.”
“What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.”

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