"safety and love are both illusions!"

-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Safety Quotes #And Love Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. Itâ€™s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.”
“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”
“In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.”
“Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.”
“I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.”
“What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!”

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