"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

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“People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.”
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.”
“I mean, 3-D adds a whole level of 'oh my goodness' to the movie in good ways and bad ways that you have to deal with. We've overcome any obstacle that we've ever had because we have a great 3-D crew, Max and the guys at Paradise 3-D.”
“More people worship the rising than the setting sun”
“A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media
“When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.”
“Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.”

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