"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Inspirational Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the SÃ¡mi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?”
“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers
“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”
“If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.”
“Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!”
“Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.”
“How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful”
“I've been writing full-time since I was 23,”

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