"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."

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Source : 'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 30.

George Henry Borrow

#Drug Quotes #Literature Quotes #Losing Quotes

“Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.”

Source : Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.320, New Harbinger Publications
“To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.”
“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
“I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?”

Source : "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.
“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”
“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”
“The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.”
“By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.”

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