"It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance..."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Soup Quotes #Ducklings Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.”
“We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.”
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”
“I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.”
“The original language of Christianity is translation.”
“An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.”
“I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.”

Source : Annie Sprinkle (2006). “Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance”, p.116, A&C Black

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