"I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty."

-- John Dryden

#Women Quotes #Wrinkles Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”
“Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.”

Source : Johannes Itten (1961). “Kunst der Farbe”, Reinhold Pub. Corp
“But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.”
“I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.”
“Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.”
“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”
“I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

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