"If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas."

-- Mason Cooley

#Ideas Quotes #Office Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Hopefully, I can continue to do anything I want. I just want to do things that I'm passionate about in this life.”
“Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.”
“As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.”
“It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.”
“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2015). “The Mime Order”, p.459, A&C Black
“Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.”
“Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.”
“You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.”

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