"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

-- Horace Greeley

#Wisdom Quotes #Character Quotes #Wings Quotes

“I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.”
“The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.”
“I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.”
“Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard.”
“A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.”
“Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.”
“Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception. One falls in it To deceive the other”

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