"I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it."

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Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

Antonio Porchia

“After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.”

Source : "One-line genius" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.
“I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.”
“In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.”

Source : FaceBook post by Terri Blackstock from Jul 23, 2012
“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.”
“The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers--the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel.”
“I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. So then I try, and I watch it become something totally different. But that's the way I have to do it.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
“You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.”
“Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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