Quotes About Passion

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive.

But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just a momentenry surge of animal desire. I understood that she wasn't a terribly articulate person and nothing she said that afternoon was particularly brilliant or memorable. And yet there I was in a state of maximum torment - burning and longing and pining, a man trapped in the spines of love.

Si, l'amavo in tutta l'ampiezza consentita dalla legge (la legge della mia natura) [...].

La poesía es algo hermoso, pero no vale la pena que se te congele el culo por ella.

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age ...

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Amar las palabras, tener interés en lo que se escribe, creer en el poder de los libros, esto supera a todo lo demás, y a su lado la vida de uno se queda muy pequeña.

those men worked in order to live, whereas his father seemed to live in order to work, which meant that his parents' friends were defined more by their enthusiasms than their burdens or responsibilities,

Horniness is a human constant, the engine that drives the world, and even back then, in the dark age of the mid-twentieth century, students were fucking like rabbits.

Germans either want to kill you or fuck you.

Most couples have songs they call their own. We had books. Authors. Artists. Silent movies.

I fuck like an upturned guppy.

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Celui qui n'a pas le goût de l'absolu se contente d'une médiocrité tranquille»

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.

Public Choice Theory. This recognized that decisions on public policies are not usually taken by detached saints, but by balancing pressures from different interest groups, including the bureaucrats themselves. The selflessness of the planner could only be relied upon while the people involved in the decision were imbued with a passion for the national interest, as instilled into the wartime generation.