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"What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?"

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Source : Mark Doty, “Visitation”

Mark Doty

#Thinking Quotes #Joy Quotes

  • “Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”

  • “Nothing is more stylish than power.”

    Source : Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.15, Crown Business

  • “In stages, the impossible becomes possible.”

  • “To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.”

  • “This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.”

  • “Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.”

  • “The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.”

  • “When people hear me sing, I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.”

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