"I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat."

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Heart Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Take A Deep Breath Quotes

“I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.”
“Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'”
“As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.”
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
“I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.”
“Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.”
“Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition
“When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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