"I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?"

-- Elizabeth Bishop

#Believe Quotes #Forgive Me Quotes #Sloth Quotes

“The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.”
“No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.”
“There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.”
“When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.”
“We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.”
“As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.”
“The first and most important rule of gun-running is, never get shot with your own merchandise.”
“People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.”

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