"O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.”
“I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.”
“As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."”

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“Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.”

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“Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.”
“Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.136, Macmillan
“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.”
“In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.”

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