"Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow."

-- Betty MacDonald

#Dirty Quotes #Snow Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.”

Source : Robert Fitzgerald (1993). “The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings”, p.278, New Directions Publishing
“Sustainability has become an ornament.”
“One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...”

Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”

Source : Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.
“If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.”
“I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.”
“In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press
“What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”

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