"Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Offering Quotes

“The center of the stage is where I am.”
“The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives--in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.”
“The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.”
“There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.”

Source : Quoted in Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (1991).
“My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.”
“[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.”
“The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.”

Source : "George Will Calls Donald Trump a 'Bloviating Ignoramus'". abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.
“Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.”

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