"And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have."

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Elizabeth Bishop

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.”
“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”
“I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.464, Vintage
“I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2010). “Dark Challenge”, p.16, Harper Collins
“A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.”

Source : Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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