Jill Ciment famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

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