"I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later."

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Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin

Reif Larsen

#Regret Quotes #Italian Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Pity is like eating mustard without beef.”
“It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.”
“Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
“The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time.”
“I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.”
“As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.”

Source : "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.
“I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture”

Source : Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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