"Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?"

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Source : Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anita Desai

#Moving Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Flow Quotes

“To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Gravity Dreams”, p.11, Macmillan
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.”
“I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.”
“Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.”
“I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press
“What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.”
“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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