"The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today."

-- William Lyon Mackenzie

#Yesterday Quotes #Promise Quotes #Today Quotes

“God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.”
“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”
“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.”
“Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.”
“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.”
“As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.”
“What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.”
“I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.”

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