"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

-- Anais Nin

#Thinking Quotes #Being Sad Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.”
“Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.”

Source : "Charles Saatchi: the hideousness of the art world" by Charles Saatchi, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.
“To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.”
“I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”

Source : Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins
“If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.”
“Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.”
“Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.”

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