"Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay."

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Source : George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

George Meredith

#Garden Quotes #Smell Quotes #Decay Quotes

“How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.”

Source : Howard Jacobson (2011). “Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.”
“I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.”
“It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.”
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”
“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

Source : Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.11, HarperCollins
“Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.”

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