"Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do."

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Source : "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.

Maurice Sendak

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters ...”

Source : "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”
“What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?”

Source : Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.702, Pan Macmillan
“God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.”
“I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.”
“I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.
“I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint

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