"Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness."

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Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

James Branch Cabell

#Life Quotes #Littles Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.”
“Golf's the only sport that comes with a slave.”
“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”
“Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.”

Source : Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.66, Penguin
“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Source : Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey
“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.”
“I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.
“A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.”

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