"I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever."

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Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.74, LSU Press

Keri Hulme

#Color Quotes #Forever Quotes #Soul Quotes

“For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.”
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Source : John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”
“Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.”
“A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.64, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I focus on fashion of course, I love it. I may go buy an outfit and get dressed just to sit on the couch and watch TV at the crib so on the outside looking in people cold better word it. It's really me just being me.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!”
“I loved dancing as a young girl.”

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