"I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being meâ€™s no joke."

-- John Barth

#Sweet Quotes #Self Quotes #Play Quotes

“If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease.”
“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.”
“When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.”
“If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.”

Source : "Warren Jeffs sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison as picture emerges of 50 brides, bred to worship the polygamous 'prophet'". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 9, 2011.
“Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.”
“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”
“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”

Source : John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie (1996). “John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie”

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