"The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished."

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Writing Quotes #Wine Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.”

Source : Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications
“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
“I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.”
“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
“Our creature comforts”
“I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.”
“I will walk to the end with my SS501 members.”
“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.165, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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