"What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board."

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Source : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

Louise Bernikow

#People Quotes #Boards Quotes #Haunting Quotes

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

Source : Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan
“I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.”

Source : "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
“Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.”
“It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.”
“We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.”
“Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.”
“He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.”
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.”

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