"I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters."

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Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan

Kate Atkinson

#World Quotes #My Sister Quotes #Ends Quotes

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.”
“I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.”
“First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.”
“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.”
“There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”

Source : "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.
“Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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