"It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain."

-- Robert McCracken

#Life Quotes #Cities Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.”
“Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.”
“Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.”
“The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”
“Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.”
“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”
“There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.333, Penguin
“The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.”

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