Catherine Webb famous quotes

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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
-- Catherine Webb

#Details #Littles #Doughnut
When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.
-- Catherine Webb

#Cutting #Mushrooms #Circles
This thing you carry inside you, I don't know what it is. I don't know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.
-- Catherine Webb

#Regret #Inspiration #Past

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didnâ€™t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But Iâ€™d seen it once -Woods
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Catherine Webb famous quotes

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