"To think well is to serve God in the interior court."

-- Thomas Traherne

#Thinking Quotes #Court Quotes #Serving God Quotes

“She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow of surface from the temples over the cheek is exactly like the carving of a Phidean goddess”
“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.”
“I am not very introspective.”
“Things ain't like they say they be, but they do!”
“For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”

Source : Bryan Caplan (2011). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”, p.116, Princeton University Press
“That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.”
“The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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