"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

-- Manuel Puig

#Pleasure Quotes #Copies Quotes

“Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press
“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "World War II", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.
“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.”
“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.”

Source : "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.
“The first good-looking girl I see tonight is going to die.”
“Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.”
“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.”
“I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.”

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