"The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Beautiful Quotes #Country Quotes #Reality Quotes

“A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.”
“One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.”
“When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.”
“I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.”
“Energy is an eternal delight.”
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!”

Source : "What Are You Doing This Weekend?: Bshorty Farewell Party with KJ Sawka + Ra Scion + Joe Doria" by Aja Pecknold, Seattle Weekly, June 04, 2007.
“We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.”

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