"Life begins when you do."

-- Hugh Downs

#Carpe Diem Quotes #Carpe Quotes

“I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.”
“I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.”
“I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.”
“Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.”
“I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.”
“This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.”
“They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.”

Source : "Times of London", May 11, 1992.

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