"And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step."

-- Shannon Hale

#Moving Quotes #Listening Quotes #Next Quotes

“Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.”
“We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY
“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.”
“...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.”
“Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.”
“Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.”
“Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ***** off. There is no moss on that stone.”
“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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