"Everyoneâ€™s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes."

-- Andrea Gibson

#Wall Quotes #Fists Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.”
“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”
“An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”
“But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.”
“Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.”
“When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.”
“That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.”
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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