"Literature has become my life."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Literature Quotes

“Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.”
“... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.”
“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.573, Simon and Schuster
“I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more ***** and virtuosos anywhere.”
“I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.”
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books
“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.”
“A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.”

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