"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."

-- Irwin Shaw

#Believe Quotes #Gone Quotes #Literature Quotes

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”
“If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.”
“I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.”
“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”
“Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis”
“[Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.”
“I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.”
“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.”

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