"Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety."

-- William Carlos Williams

#Character Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Speech Quotes

“How sickness enlarges the dimension of a manâ€™s self to himself!”
“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”
“I always enjoy animal acts.”
“They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?”
“Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.”
“Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?”
“During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.”
“A good mother is irreplaceable.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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