"Love and despair go hand in hand."

-- Barry Hannah

#Hands Quotes #Despair Quotes

“When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.224, Counterpoint
“If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.”
“So what should we say when children complete a taskâ€”say, math problemsâ€”quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, â€œWhoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Letâ€™s do something you can really learn from!”
“For me, architecture is a social act,”

Source : "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
“Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.”
“As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.”
“I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.”

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