"At times the mirror increases a thingâ€™s value, at times denies it."

-- Italo Calvino

#Mirrors Quotes #Deny Quotes #Increase Quotes

“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so itâ€™s summer, so itâ€™s suicide, so weâ€™re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”
“A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.”
“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
“Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1994). “The Summer House: A Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA
“Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.”
“Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.”
“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”
“Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.”

Source : "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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