"A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager."

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Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#Spring Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Acquaintance Quotes

“No family is sane, is it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.”
“I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.”
“I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.”
“But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”
“I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.”

Source : "The Full Giamatti". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2007.

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