"One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do."

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Jose Saramago

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Careful Quotes

“In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
“To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.”
“Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?”
“Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2001). “As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.”
“I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.”
“The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time â€” it is the most faggy ***** thing you could ever imagine.”
“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”

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