"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."

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Daisy Ashford

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“Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life”
“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
“I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.”
“The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.”

Source : Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press
“Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.”
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
“For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.”
“The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.”

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