"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.”
“hope your birthday is hot hot hot”
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.”
“Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.”
“Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.”
“In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.”
“We donâ€™t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.”
“When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!”

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