"I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up."

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Source : Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.27, Penguin

Bruce Chatwin

#Wall Quotes #Book Quotes #Fire Quotes

“It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.”
“I love roles where I have to transform myself.”
“I just want to keep learning.”
“Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Aug 23, 2013
“Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin . We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.”
“This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.”

Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.328, Counterpoint Press
“Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.”
“I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.”

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