"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."

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Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.25, Northwestern University Press

John Millington Synge

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“Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.”
“In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.”
“May I never forget, on my best day, that I need God as desperately as I did on my worst day”
“In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, JosÃ©e Jongen.”
“For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).”
“I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”

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