"Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,"

-- Felix Dennis

#Tree Quotes #Immortality Quotes #Plant Quotes

“A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.102, Faber & Faber
“The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.”
“I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.”
“Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.”
“Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.”
“It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.”
“Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America
“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

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