"We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief."

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

Marguerite Yourcenar

#Wise Quotes #Grief Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually - but discipline in the sense of just working on music and working on thinking about music. It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically.”
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”
“In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.”
“In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.”
“Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2014). “Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution”, p.243, A&C Black
“One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.”
“When you see old movies, there were so many beautiful actresses. Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were beautiful... They were all so glamorous. You never saw them in their dungarees and their gym suits. They always looked fabulous.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks

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