"we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing."

-- Muriel Spark

#Sex Quotes #Real Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.”
“If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, because you get as much as I do. The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.”
“I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.”
“I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.”

Source : David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango
“The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.”
“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.”
“Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.”

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