"I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!"

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Source : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405

Catharine Sedgwick

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eden Quotes

“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”
“Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.”
“Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.”

Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.”
“Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.”
“Ill-gotten gains work evil.”
“Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.”

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