"Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation â€” the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline."

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Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

Peter De Vries

#Writing Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.”
“Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.”
“Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.”
“Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.”
“Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.”
“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.”
“It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.”
“The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we can bring others to see the gospel in action, the more they will be willing to at least tolerate us, then to encourage us, and eventually to cooperate with us.”

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