"I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me."

-- Eduardo Galeano

#Writing Quotes #Annoyed Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.”
“I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.”
“Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.”

Source : "The Still Centre (The Uncreating Chaos)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1939.
“Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”

Source : Letter to John Forster, 1850.
“It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve â€” the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.”

Source : "Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century". Book by Richard Weston, 2004.
“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.”
“You don't reward reaction; you reward results.”

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