"Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over artâ€“before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters."

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Gordon Korman

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Character Quotes

“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing â€¦ something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.”

Source : Elizabeth Haydon (2000). “Rhapsody: Child of Blood”, p.67, Macmillan
“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.”
“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press
“You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.”

Source : Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.28, Abrams
“Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.”
“To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.”

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