"The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesnâ€™t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end upâ€“wordless, inarticulateâ€”by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die."

-- Charles Baxter

#Two Quotes #Say Anything Quotes #Problem Quotes

“But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of everything. I can't bear to throw things away - a nice wine bottle, a nice box. Sometimes I feel like a wizard in Toytown, transforming a bunch of carrots into pomegranates.”
“My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.”

Source : John James Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, Elliott Coues (1994). “Audubon and His Journals”, p.527, Courier Corporation
“The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second to instil in them a sense of animosity towards the enemy, coupled with a spirit of resistence... this required us to use the language of indoctrination rather than realpolitik. People then were not in need of political analysis, they were in need of being incited and goaded.”
“What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.”
“I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'”
“I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.”

Source : Millard Kaufman (2008). “Bowl of Cherries: A Novel”, p.142, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.”
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”

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