"Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.16, Shambhala Publications
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
“Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.”
“One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.”

Source : "The Book of Military Quotations" by Peter G. Tsouras, (p. 55), 1998.
“And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.”
“I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.”
“There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.”

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