"I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies."

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Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

Brendan Gill

#Butterfly Quotes #Eye Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“I don't really have a dream collaboration.”
“The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.”
“Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.”
“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”

Source : Louis Bayard (2009). “The Black Tower: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”
“Life is too precious to be left to chance”

Source : Walter Moers (2001). “The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear”, Vintage Uk
“Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power.”
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

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