"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Prayer Quotes #Book Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press
“The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.”
“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.”
“My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.”
“A group of us are going to do something.”
“The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world”
“First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.”
“I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.156, U of Nebraska Press

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