"It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing â€“ a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didnâ€™t use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way."

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Source : Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Franny Billingsley

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Dust Quotes

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”
“Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.”
“I hope people get genuine joy from our music.”
“My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.”
“He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.”
“Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.”
“I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each otherâ€¦ as one, we can help society.”
“I need to find avenues to express all of my creativity. There's always polarizing forces. Sometimes I feel like my work is going in different directions, but hopefully it's just expanding. And I think as much as possible to just let ourselves be in all the various aspects. I feel more inspired by people who just will let themselves be as creators, and I don't think it has to be contradictory.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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