"To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt."

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Source : "The land of the long white cloud" by Eleanor Catton, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2013.

Eleanor Catton

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“The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”
“Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.”
“An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.”

Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.”
“It's fun doing new things.”
“What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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