"Beauty alters the grain of reality,"

-- Donna Tartt

#Reality Quotes #Grain Quotes

“O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.”

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“One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93, 1971.
“Writing is making sense of life.”
“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
“A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.”
“The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11
“You just have to follow your own heart.”

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