"I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it."

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Source : Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

Sam Lipsyte

#Live Life Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.”
“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”

Source : "How to Read a Book".
“Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,”
“I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be”
“Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.”
“Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!”
“The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.”

Source : "Chimera". Book by John Barth, 1972.

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