"Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk."

-- Anais Nin

#People Quotes #Judging Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.”

Source : Interview with Eddie Vedder, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.
“For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.”
“I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.”

Source : Source: www.mybestyears.com
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press
“The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.”
“There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.”
“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.”

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