"The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming."

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Source : Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House

Alice Munro

#Kissing Quotes #Fearless Quotes #Subtle Quotes

“I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.”
“Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.”
“The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow
“I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'”
“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.”
“Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis (2009). “Bucking the Sarge”, p.91, Laurel Leaf

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