"You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone."

-- Brion Gysin

#Two Quotes #Nails Quotes #Hammers Quotes

“Simple English is no oneâ€™s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.”
“Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.”
“melanie: well, tell him wanda: what will happen then? melanie: you know what will happen. kyle broke the rules. jeb will shoot him, or they'll kick him ou. meybe ian will beat the snot out of him first.that would be fun to watch.”
“I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.”

Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2014). “All Our Names”, p.17, Knopf
“About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.”
“dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.”
“I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.”
“There are so many people living the best life money can buy. I want to slap some of these people. Some of these people you think are living the best life but they're not rich on the inside. I started Reallionaire philosophy to be spiritual and be rich on the inside out.”

Source : TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. February 23, 2011.

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