"I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness."

-- Mary Antin

#Two Quotes #World Quotes #Want Quotes

“Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?”

Source : FaceBook post by Julie Orringer from Jan 17, 2017
“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan
“At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.”
“I pray the breviary every morning. I like to pray with the psalms. Then, later, I celebrate Mass. I pray the Rosary. What I really prefer is adoration in the evening, even when I get distracted and think of other things, or even fall asleep praying. In the evening then, between seven and eight o'clock, I stay in front of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour in adoration. But I pray mentally even when I am waiting at the dentist or at other times of the day.”
“Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol”
“If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.”
“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”
“Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.”

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