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“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”

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Elvis Presley, born on January 8, 1935, and passed away on August 16, 1977, was an iconic American singer, actor, and music producer. Known as the 'King of Rock and Roll,' his music and performance style had a profound impact on the world. more

“Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.”

Source: Still Another Day

“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.”

Source: Still Another Day

“We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

Destiny Knowing Wind Goes On Ocean Stones Mortals Burning Goodbye Shore Metals Discovering Saying Goodbye My Destiny

Book:Still Another Day

Source: Still Another Day

“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Wells May Religion Universe Names Ignorance Sight Responsible Cruelty Ashamed Hiding Followers Promoting

Author:Philip Pullman

“the truth is often a mixed message”

Truth Is Messages

Book:Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah

“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”

Writing Strong Authority Absolutes Believer Tyranny Dictatorship

Author:Philip Pullman

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”

Thinking Writing Humans Persons Young Wise Female Thirds Males Silly Innocent Narrators Young And Old Third Person Old And Wise

Author:Philip Pullman

“i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.”

Knows Want Said Different Happened Rivers Shops Butchers Manageable

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.”

Littles Strong Fantasy Craving Little Women

Author:Anne Lamott

“The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins”

Moments Shows Rooms Our Lives Objects Wall Pride Shining Ruins Cracks Touching Brokenness Clutter Bleakness

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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