"Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ..."

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Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann

Penelope Gilliatt

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“Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.”
“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
“Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”
“Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines”
“My music is best understood by children and animals.”
“People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.”
“Hopefully, I can continue to do anything I want. I just want to do things that I'm passionate about in this life.”
“All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.”

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