"When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist."

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Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Sleepless Nights”, p.10, New York Review of Books

Elizabeth Hardwick

#Travel Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.”
“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
“The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.”

Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”
“What's insane is a ten percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary war began on less than two percent. How is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage? We must do something.”
“There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe”

Source : "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature" by Paul Dirac, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.
“The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.”

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