Marjorie Celona famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.
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For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.
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Don’t believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.
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No one has patience for love except their own.
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Don’t believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.
-- Marjorie Celona
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one†in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
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