"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

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Source : Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margaret Atwood

#Nature Quotes #Spring Quotes #Garden Quotes

“This is our world, and we must make the best of it.”
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation”
“I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.”
“Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)”
“Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.”
“Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.”
“Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.”
“Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

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