"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Mixtures Quotes #Language Quotes

“Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.”

Source : "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.
“You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.”
“To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.”
“Do you prefer â€˜fashion victimâ€™ or â€˜ensembly challengedâ€™?”
“Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.”
“Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.”
“When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.”
“The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.”

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