"In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community."

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Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

Kylie Tennant

#Men Quotes #Cities Quotes #Community Quotes

“When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.”
“Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.”
“Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.”
“It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.”
“If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.”

Source : Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com
“Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.”

Source : Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.36, Harvard University Press
“If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.”
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”

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