Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. – Aldous Huxley Category: Nature
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler Category: Nature
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott Category: Nature
When youre thirty-five, you cant take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it… – John Lennon Category: Drinking
The real “it is well” is something I say from the ground, having fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Attitude