"There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home."

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Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

Marjorie Holmes

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“The history of a city was like the history of a familyâ€”there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writerâ€™s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22
“Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.”
“But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, â€” even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, â€” there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.... All else is bare, but prophetic: buds everywhere, the whole splendor of the coming summer concentrated in those hard little knobs on every bough...”

Source : "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".
“The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean it in this game. There's plenty of evidence to be found that you can have all the #1 records in the world, but if you really ain't touchin' them, you don't come home with gold records and platinum records. I'm very proud that we've only had one #1 record, but we've sold two and one half million!”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”
“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men”

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