"I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless."

-- Egon Schiele

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.”
“The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.”
“Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.”
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense that the essays become something very different than the original subject. Assignments are great, though - they test your mettle, your spirit and resilience. All of sudden you drop in, you don't know anything, you're vulnerable and available.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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