#Death Quotes #Boon Quotes #Ill Quotes
“These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.”
Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.78, Vintage
“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”
“You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.”
Source : "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day".
“I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.”
“You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.”
“If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.”
“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”
“To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.”
Source : 1928 'Letter fromParis to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).
Alcaeus Poet
Anacreon Poet
Archilochus Poet
Catullus Poet
Euripides Writer
Homer Author
Horace Poet
Pindar Poet
Sophocles Playwright
