"There is much to be said for solitude."

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Source : Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

Douglas Kennedy

#Solitude Quotes #Said Quotes

“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

Source : "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.”
“We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didnâ€™t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2005). “Woken Furies”, p.286, Del Rey
“My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.”
“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
“If it's planned, it's boring”
“... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.”

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