"I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea."

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Source : "The Book of Salt" by Monique Truong, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2003.

Monique Truong

#Sea Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Kitchen Quotes

“Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.”
“Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.”

Source : Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail
“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”
“We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.”
“I can only give away the love that I have received.”
“The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.”
“You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014
“Ask a deeply religious Christian if heâ€™d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists donâ€™t seem so bad lately.”

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