"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Flying Quotes #World Quotes #Royal Quotes

“One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.”

Source : Source: www.680news.com
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If itâ€™s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, itâ€™s going to fail.”

Source : "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn". Interview with Sari Botton, therumpus.net. January 24, 2011.
“I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.”
“Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.”
“I dont have any blonde friends.”

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