"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. Weâ€™re difficult to ourselves, weâ€™re difficult to each other."

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Source : "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". Interview with Carl Phillips, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

Geoffrey Hill

#Difficult Quotes #Humans Quotes

“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.”
“The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.”
“Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.”
“I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.”
“Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.314, Ballantine Books
“A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.”

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