"Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness?"

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Source : Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Miss Read

#Hurt Quotes #Healing Quotes #Dark Quotes

“No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.”
“Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.”
“The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.”

Source : "Intimate Voices" by Alex Ross, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2001.
“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
“If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.”
“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”
“Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.”
“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”

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