"I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general."

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Source : " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

Jay McInerney

#Vices Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.”
“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”
“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”
“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”
“There are no rules when it comes to makeup!”
“Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are...”

Source : "Language:A Divine Way of Communicating" by Charles A. Didier, www.lds.org. October 1979.
“Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.”

Source : Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press
“If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.”

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