"The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers."

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Source : Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

Hilda Conkling

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“I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.”
“There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.”
“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
“I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.”
“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.”
“I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.”
“Of course people take something good and turn it negative.”

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