"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."

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Source : Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”

Joseph Butler

#Passion Quotes #Order Quotes #Imperfection Quotes

“I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.”
“It's so much easier when you've got guys on base and the whole offense is clicking.”
“Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : "Not Waving but Drowning" l. 11 (1957)
“Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
“I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.”
“There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”
“It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press
“I've always been interested in art.”

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