"A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection"

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weaknessâ€¦ I may. If you ask nicely.”
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
“God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.”
“There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.”

Source : Babette Deutsch (1969). “The collected poems”
“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”
“In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.”
“In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.”

Source : "Notorious actor Derek Luke talks about playing P Diddy and trying to find the human side of Sean Combs". www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2009.
“If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would sayâ€”and I'm fine with gay people, that's all rightâ€”but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Greenfield, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2014.

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