"the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry."

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Source : Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.525, Faber & Faber

Jan Morris

#Personality Quotes #Canada Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Donâ€™t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.”
“I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.”
“You cannot live without doing something.”
“Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.”
“No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aÃ«rial power for him who is able to respire it.”
“I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.”
“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.”
“Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.31

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