"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."

-- Jerzy Kosinski

#Novelists Quotes #Poetic Quotes

“If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.”
“Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.”

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“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.”
“Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.”
“I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.”

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“In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.”
“There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.”

Source : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”

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