"Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing."

-- David Leavitt

#Writing Quotes #Return Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”
“The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.”
“When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.”
“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
“No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!”
“I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.”
“We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.”
“What was more brutal than loss of hope?”

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