"The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up."

-- Richard Russo

#Real Quotes #Heart Quotes #Light Quotes

“This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.”
“The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.”
“The footprints of an Angel in your life are Love.”
“when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
“I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.”

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