"What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find."

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Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

Susan Glaspell

#Would Be Quotes #Reckless Quotes

“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
“I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.”
“He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”
“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, â€œDo you ever know what the birds are singing? You donâ€™t. But you listen to them anyway.â€ So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”
“The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”
“Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.”

Source : "Actors pay a big price" By Martine Costello, www.cnn.com. March 22, 2001.
“They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.”

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