"With languages, you are at home anywhere"

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Edmund de Waal

#Home Quotes #Language Quotes

“There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?”
“Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
“It takes a while to really love yourself...”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.
“We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12832, Delphi Classics
“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.”
“One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesnâ€™t matter if youâ€™re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesnâ€™t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.”
“My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.”

Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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