"To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world."

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Julia Quinn

#Writing Quotes #Ink Quotes #World Quotes

“Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.”
“I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.”
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
“I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.”
“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”
“The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate”, p.58
“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

Source : "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration: Old Wisdom for a New World". Book by Vera Nazarian, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2010.

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