"Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen."

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Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

Sheila Ballantyne

#Earthquakes Quotes #Planning Quotes #Californians Quotes

“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.”
“Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.”
“I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.”
“I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that.”

Source : "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.
“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1960). “The Snake Has All the Lines”
“Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.”

Source : 'A Poem with the Answer'

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