"What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?"

-- Rumi

#Beloved Quotes #Pretending Quotes #Stills Quotes

“When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.”
“But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: Iâ€™m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press
“I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.”
“When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.”
“A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.”
“I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.”
“I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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