"I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit."

-- Julio Cortazar

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Rabbits Quotes

“I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.”
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation
“My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.”
“In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.”
“According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.”
“As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.”
“Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.”

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