"A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow."

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Source : "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

Tomas Transtromer

#Shadow Quotes #Photograph Quotes #Bigger Quotes

“It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.”

Source : John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. â€œHow do you know a match don't hurt him?â€ â€œTurtles can't feel, stupid,â€ said Jem. â€œWhere you ever a turtle, huh?”
“I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry”
“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”
“Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow youâ€”not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.”
“What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.”
“If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.”

Source : "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, tucson.com. May 10, 2014.
“For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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