"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."

-- Harold Pinter

#Wise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.”
“Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.”
“Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!”
“I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.”
“Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.”

Source : "Prolific Nobel winner's pen name? 'Not talking'" by Joe Sterling and Steven Jiang, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2012.
“Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.75, Atlantic Monthly Press
“So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.”
“We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

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