"Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining."

-- Ian Fleming

#Long Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Nests Quotes

“The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.”
“One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.”
“I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.”
“When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.”
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.”
“It is said that life is too short, and thatâ€™s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
“I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.”
“A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.”

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