Harold Norse quotes

Harold Norse quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.”
-- Harold Norse

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“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”
“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
“Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.”
“I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.”
“We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.”
“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”

Source : "Fictional character: Evgeny Onegin". "Onegin", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
“The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.”
“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”

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