"The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

William Gilmore Simms

#Birthday Quotes #Children Quotes #Soul Quotes

“So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.”

Source : Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu
“For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield
“Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.”

Source : Max Barry (2003). “Jennifer Government: A Novel”, Vintage
“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
“The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.”
“I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.”
“To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.”

Source : Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Hawes (1982). “Entertaining”, Clarkson Potter

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