"O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one."

-- Lewis Carroll

#Running Quotes #Home Quotes #Oysters Quotes

“In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.”
“And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.57, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.508, Everyman's Library
“The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.”
“Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.”
“First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens - and yes, by choice, and for a long time now - to live in this particular place, and where, as the joke goes, there are only three seasons: July, August, and winter.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.”
“Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.”

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