"Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious."

-- Mary Oliver

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“I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.”
“Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked”
“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.298, The New Press
“Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.”
“Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.”
“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”
“I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as accountancy, you still may end up not getting a job as an accountant.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.”

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