"My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting."

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Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”

Louise Imogen Guiney

#Passion Quotes #Collecting Quotes

“The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.”
“The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.”
“Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.”
“A lot of feature films do two pages a day.”
“I have always had a relationship with clothes.”
“Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.”

Source : Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.21
“Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.79, McClelland & Stewart
“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.”

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