"I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere."

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Source : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

Karen Cushman

#Dog Quotes #Spring Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.”

Source : "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.
“It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.”
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance”

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK
“I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.”
“Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
“The secret of a great melody is a secret.”
“The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.”

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