"I do find life difficult at times â€¦ and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy â€¦ I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?"

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Source : "Diaries reveal dark side to Little Grey Rabbit's creator" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

Alison Uttley

#Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.366
“The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.”
“We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.”
“..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...”
“The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.”
“The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.”
“I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being on this academic trajectory - and then when it's done - all of a sudden the whole world is maybe open to you. But you're the one that's really in charge of your path. And that can be a really scary thing, I think.”
“My sisters are my favorite people on earth.”

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