"Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will."

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Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

Mary Stewart

#Hope Quotes #Fall Quotes #Light Quotes

“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press
“The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people.”
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kleypas from Sep 20, 2010
“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.”

Source : 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
“I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.”
“I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.”
“Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.”

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