"Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination."

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Laura Furman

#Reading Quotes #Hallucinations Quotes #Form Quotes

“Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.”
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”
“The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.”
“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.”
“We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.”
“Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is -Â a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.”
“There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Country music will never be the same.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com

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