"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."

-- Gene Tierney

#Years Quotes #Meat Quotes #Salad Quotes

“Why doesn't Prin go and get her own ***** blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1974). “The Diviners”, p.36, University of Chicago Press
“Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”
“And [now] I think Iâ€™ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows Iâ€™ve hung bird feeders â€¦ for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.”
“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.”
“In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.”
“The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.”
“On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.35, Agate Digital
“The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue between the withered sedge; The sun gleamed warm the bank beside, 'Twas pleasant wandering out a while Neath nestling bush to lonely hide, Or bend a musings o'er a stile.”

Source : John Clare (2012). “Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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