"Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough."

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Source : John Rechy (2011). “City of Night”, p.329, Souvenir Press

John Rechy

#Loneliness Quotes #Absence Quotes #Enough Quotes

“To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1947). “Mathematics as a culture clue: and other essays”
“While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.”
“If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.”
“It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.243, Penguin
“I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.”
“The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.”
“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”

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