"Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them."

-- Alphonse Daudet

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.”

Source : S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.253, Random House
“Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.”

Source : "From England, Fashion's Latest Darling" by Bee -Shuyang Chang, www.nytimes.com. January 09, 2013.
“Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
“I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.”
“People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.”
“Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.”

Source : "The best of the Group of Seven".
“I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.”
“Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.”

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