"I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine."

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Janet Fitch

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.”
“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”

Source : James Hutton (1997). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts”, p.16, Geological Society of London
“The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.”
“The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.”
“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”
“What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”
“I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.”
“The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.”

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