"Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision."

-- John Galsworthy

#Vision Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.”

Source : Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.”

Source : Amy Schumer (2016). “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
“I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.”
“The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.”

Source : Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”
“When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.”
“I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.”
“I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't!”

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