"I've always been attracted to temporary families."

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Gus Van Sant

#Temporary Quotes

“He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.”

Source : 'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)
“On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.”

Source : Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”
“Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.”

Source : Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
“From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.”
“The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.”
“The omelette tasted like flannel.”

Source : James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.109, Open Road Media

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