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Anthony Trollope

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?"

Source : Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.295, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Anthony Trollope

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“Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.”
“. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.”
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.”
“To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.”
“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”
“As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.”
“Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.”
“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?"

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