"Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life."

-- Charles Stross

#Motivation Quotes #Joy Quotes #Novelty Quotes

“Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.”
“Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.”
“By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.”
“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

Source : Hal Borland (1967). “Hill Country Harvest”
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
“The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.”

Source : "Carmina". LXIV. 406,
“On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.”
“When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.”

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