"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder."

-- Ella Maillart

#Children Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Artist Quotes

“When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.”
“I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among people like themselves, around people with whom they feel comfortable. That can be exclusive, it could be exclusionary. It could be racist, classist, genocidal, and so on. Most people like comfort. Now what provides a sense of comfort varies. I do think that people who like living in cities like small-scale human interaction and they like the social dimensions of aesthetic diversity that Jane Jacobs wrote about.”
“At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.11, Penguin
“I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.”
“I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one of us could hit one more home run? Obviously, it was supposed to go that way. It's a pretty cool thing, I guess.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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