"We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Love Quotes #Unusual Things Quotes #Secret Quotes

“It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”

Source : JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”
“I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided to try to write a song each day. Whether it was good or bad wasn't important.”

Source : "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008.
“And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?”
“There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.”
“Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.”
“My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.”
“Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”
“All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.”

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