"But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religiousâ€”pray."

--

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

Ridgely Torrence

#Wise Quotes #Religious Quotes #Wine Quotes

“How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?”
“In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.”
“I do a lot of writing about my family.”
“She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.”

Source : W. Kinsella, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Max Apple (2016). “Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature”, p.336, Tachyon Publications
“Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.”

Source : "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

Source : Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)
“God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'”
“The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken place in the world, the ultimate word of the world and about the world has not yet been spoken, the world is open and free, everything is still in the future and will always be in the future”

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