"Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential."

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Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.384, Penguin

Ariana Franklin

#Essentials Quotes #Awful Quotes #Today Quotes

“There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”
“They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
“It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.”
“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.
“America does not like people being not nice to dogs.”
“I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.”
“I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.”

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