"Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered."

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Source : Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.192, Vintage

Nancy Mitford

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“Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.”

Source : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”
“I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.”
“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
“It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.”
“It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.”
“That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.”
“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

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