"In literature it is only the wild that attracts us."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Literature Quotes

“To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.”
“Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.”
“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.”
“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.”
“What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearanceâ€¦ in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, â€˜to cease to be among menâ€™) just as action in the sense of â€˜to make a beginningâ€™ is a repetition of birth.”
“That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.”
“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two...”
“New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.”

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