"I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.
“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”

Source : Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”
“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”

Source : "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.
“I believe in health care reform.”
“Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.”
“The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.”
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”
“No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.”

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