"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2013). “I Await the Devil's Coming”, p.14, Melville House

Mary MacLane

#White Quotes #Littles Quotes #World Quotes

“Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
“Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.”
“I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach...and finding quiet time.”
“I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.”
“The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live”
“The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals”
“There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived.”

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