"Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door."

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Source : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.302, tredition

Ethel M. Dell

#Grief Quotes #Doors Quotes #Closing Quotes

“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Cathedral”, p.148, Vintage
“The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
“How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.”
“You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional.”
“Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.”
“There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...”
“If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.”

Source : "Ad Dæmonicum", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.
“Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.”

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