"I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house."

-- Lev Grossman

#Country Quotes #House Quotes #England Quotes

“Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different”
“Art is an artificial organization of experience ...”
“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin
“What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.”
“Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.”
“I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.”
“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”
“The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.”

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