"Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever."

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Source : Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

Minette Walters

#Fall Quotes #Rivers Quotes #White Quotes

“Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope â€“ that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). “Execution: Escape from Furnace 5”, p.311, Macmillan
“Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.”

Source : "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.
“Life is a sport...drink it up.”
“But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.”
“I feel like I kind of got my own lane, but I think if you mix T.I., Andre3000, Hov and Kanye you kinda get who I am. And I'm a huge fan of all of those artists, I grew up on a little bit of all them.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.”
“We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.”
“Rose took my nose, I suppose,â€ he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. â€œAnd it really blows.”

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