"Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ..."

-- Nancy Mitford

#Country Quotes #Wonderful Quotes #Horrible Quotes

“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
“You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.”
“Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means â€˜an uncoveringâ€™). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.432, Macmillan
“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything”
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
“our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.”

Source : Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.
“It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.”
“I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.”

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