"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."

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Source : Thomas Hood (1847). “Poems”, p.204

Thomas Hood

#Mind Quotes #Wire Quotes #Brass Quotes

“She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”
“Every woman is just a different kind of problem.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”
“The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."”
“I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible”
“But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.”
“The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.”

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