"Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Real Quotes #Taken Quotes #Eden Quotes

“You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.”
“If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.”
“No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.”
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.1, Courier Corporation
“I love singing just for my own benefit.”
“The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens”
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”

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