"Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms."

-- Ishmael

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.”
“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.”
“Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.”
“I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.”
“In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.”
“When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.”
“Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.”

Source : René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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