"Being a writer requires an intoxication with language."

-- Jim Harrison

#Language Quotes #Intoxication Quotes

“The best revenge is a life well lived.”

Source : Chloe Neill (2010). “Twice Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.191, Penguin
“Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.”
“Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.”
“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”
“Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him”
“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
“Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.”
“If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.”

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