"In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense."

-- Tabitha King

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Literature Quotes

“We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.”
“People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.”
“Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.”
“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”
“The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.”
“They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologiesâ€¦the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.”
“Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.”
“Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.”

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