"The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility."

-- Glen Duncan

#Hands Quotes #Moved On Quotes #Flesh Quotes

“Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.”
“For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.”
“But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.”
“Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them.”
“The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.”
“It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.”

Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
“Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.”
“Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.”

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