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“I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane”
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“What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.”
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“I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.”
Source : "What Diesel's Nicola Formichetti Learned from Lady Gaga" by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. May 2, 2013.
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“To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.”
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“I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.”
Source : Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation
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“She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.”
Source : Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.”
Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
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“I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."”
Source : "'Collateral Beauty' Film Writer: Will Smith Was Best Actor for Dramatic Leading Role". Interview with Jeannie Law, www.christianpost.com. December 23, 2016.