"The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafÃ©s."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

Natalia Ginzburg

#Two Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”

Source : "God is Not Cast Down". Book by Kazimir Malevich, 1922.
“In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.”
“In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.”
“We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.”
“I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”
“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”
“Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.”

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