"So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."

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Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers

Emily Carr

#Silence Quotes #Might Quotes #Woods Quotes

“I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.”
“No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.”
“If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?”
“He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.”
“I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.”
“The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.”
“Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.”
“I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.”

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