"Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels."

-- Jim Harrison

#Angel Quotes #Earth Quotes #Recycling Quotes

“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”
“Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.”
“To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.”
“The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.”
“A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”
“In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
“I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ***** to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.”
“As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.”

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