"There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms."

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Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Bird Quotes #Worms Quotes #Spite Quotes

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.”
“It's about getting off your ***** and maximizing all the opportunities that life has to offer.”
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
“Monuments are for the living, not the dead.”

Source : Frank Wedekind (2013). “Spring Awakening”, p.39, A&C Black
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press
“If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.”
“I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.”
“It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.”

Source : "Love - That's All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About" by Sheilah Graham, www.carygrant.net. June 1964.

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