"When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team."

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Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

William Braxton Irvine

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“My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.”
“You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.”
“I lock eyes with my reflection and donâ€™t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. Iâ€™m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”
“When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.”

Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
“What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.”
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
“Don't sleep in the subway, darling.”

Source : Song: Don't Sleep In The Subway
“If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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