Sootstreaked Quotes & Sayings

Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man. — William Giraldi

IF YOU ARE WEARING CLOTHES THAT YOU ENJOY WEARING, EVERYTHING YOU DO IN LIFE BECOMES FUN. — Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

He waved away the whiskeybottle with a smile. In this tall room, the cracked plaster sootstreaked with the shapes of laths beneath, this barrenness, this fellowship of the doomed. Where life pulsed obscenely fecund. In the drift of voices and the laughter and the reek of stale beer the Sunday loneliness seeped away.
Aint that right Suttree?
What's that?
About there bein caves all in under the city.
That's right.
What all's down there in em?
Blind slime. As above, so it is below. Suttree shrugged.
Nothing that I know of, he said. They're just some caves. — Cormac McCarthy

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ... — Allen Tate

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page. — Sue Grafton

A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another's path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment — Gary Hopkins

The artist has tremendous power to change the world. — Chogyam Trungpa

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone? — Laura Gilpin