"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

-- Thomas Perry

#Writing Quotes #Listening Quotes #Funny Travel Quotes

“The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.”
“Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.”
“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

Source : Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).
“I get it I live it to me there's nothin realer”
“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”
“As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.”
“My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.”

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