"Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it."

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Walter Mosley

#War Quotes #Heart Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.”
“Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'”
“Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.”
“The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.”
“Either you have dreams or you live your dreams. I'm not all that remarkable. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get to where I have to go.”
“A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.”
“Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.”

Source : HENRY ABBEY (1872). “BALLADS OF GOOD DEEDS”, p.12
“This human need for mysticism â€“ surrender to an unknown truth, union â€“ stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a motherâ€™s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brotherâ€™s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.”

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