"Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Grieving Quotes #Water Quotes #Chocolate Quotes

“A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?”
“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”
“Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.”
“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
“The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.”
“In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.11, Penguin
“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.”

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