"I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look."

-- Mary Karr

#Book Quotes #Profound Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.”
“Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?”
“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.”
“I know many people have said it before, but there is nothing a cup of coffee and a new pair of shoes can't fix!”
“If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.”

Source : Robert E. Ornstein (1988). “Psychology, the Study of Human Experience”, Harcourt College Pub
“What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?”
“But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.”

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