"I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses."

-- Janet Frame

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Humans Quotes

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”
“I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.”

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“We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.”
“My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?”
“Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.”
“We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.”
“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”

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