"Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!"

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Matsuo Basho

#Dark Quotes #Frogs Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.”
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Source : The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.
“Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.”
“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers
“There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.”
“The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.”
“The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.”

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