"Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers."

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Source : "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

Roberto Bolano

#Flower Quotes #Mushrooms Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.”
“There's no such thing as failure if you just try.”

Source : John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”
“Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...”
“Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.”
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...”
“Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?”
“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.”

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