"People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them."

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Source : Nikki Gemmell (2011). “Cleave”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

Nikki Gemmell

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“I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.”
“My goal is to always contribute a part of myself to my music that will result in it sounding authentic, timeless, and real. I feel that this truly comes across in my new album, which is in the Rock genre.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.”
“The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.”
“Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.”
“When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.”

Source : Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.”

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