"Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

#Easter Quotes #Spring Quotes #Long Quotes

“Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.”
“I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.”
“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
“We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come. Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill....This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.”
“Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.”

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“I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.”
“Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.”
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”

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