"Thereâ€™s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like youâ€™re trying to drive nails with your shoe."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Shoes Quotes #Trying Quotes #Nails Quotes

“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”
“Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.”
“Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.”
“Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from May 08, 2014
“When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their relationship with their child or adolescent. Parents need to do whatever they can to make sure the relationship is strong.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it”
“A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.”

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