"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."

-- Mary Oliver

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”
“Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'”
“Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.”

Source : Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.”
“The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.”

Source : "Philip Roth Reconsidered" by Irving Howe, Vol. 54, December, 1972.
“Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.”
“Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.”

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