"Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real."

-- Dodie Smith

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.”
“A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with the several states, and that "the tendency of the bill is to resuscitate the spirit of rebellion".”
“The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.”
“I do my very best to avoid shark fin.”
“The showstopper! The icon! The main event!”
“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

Source : Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books
“I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.”
“I wasn't born a superstar.”

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