"And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes."

-- Jess Walter

#Regret Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dexterity Quotes

“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”
“I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.”
“Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.”
“In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.”
“Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3775, Delphi Classics
“I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.”
“It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.”

Source : "The Men return to their noisy roots with the tense Devil Music" by Matt Williams, music.avclub.com. November 11, 2016.
“Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.”

Source : Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.71

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