"There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by."

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Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.402, Macmillan

Rosamunde Pilcher

#War Quotes #Joy Quotes #Fleeting Quotes

“If there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you - you have to come to the place.”
“You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.”
“I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.”
“We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.”
“I bear a charmed life.”
“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”
“At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.”
“I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.”

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