"Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange."

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J. M. Coetzee

#Desire Quotes #Coins Quotes #Language Quotes

“My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,”
“Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.”
“As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.”
“We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.”

Source : 1543 Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.
“Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Bedrock”, p.248, Open Road Media
“Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.”
“Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's”
“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2012

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