"A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved."

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.”
“George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”
“We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.”
“Only the mad girls chase me, I think.”
“To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.”
“Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the readerâ€™s skull and heart.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan
“If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.”
“The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.”

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