"I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wishâ€”I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it andâ€”appraised itâ€”and taxed itâ€”and licensed itâ€”and staled it!"

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Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2009). “The Indiscreet Letter: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#One Day Quotes #Wish Quotes #World Quotes

“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.”
“Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.”
“I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?”
“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".”
“Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.”
“The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.”
“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”

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