"turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound."

-- Ken Kesey

#Wall Quotes #Hands Quotes #Circles Quotes

“If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”
“My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.”
“I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.”
“In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.”
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.”

Source : "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.
“Ask yourself what makes you come alive.”

Source : "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.
“Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.”
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.186, Penguin

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