"she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing"

-- Andrea Gibson

#Wings Quotes #Feelings Quotes #World Quotes

“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”
“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”
“When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.”

Source : "Lionel Richie and Daughter Nicole on Fame, Drugs and Divorce". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, May 21, 2004.
“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press
“Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.”
“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”
“Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.”
“These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.”

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