"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."

-- Peter Jackson

#Country Quotes #Village Quotes

“[Signature phrase:] Can we talk?”
“I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.”
“Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.”
“Lifeâ€™s not a one-shot special. Itâ€™s a frigginâ€™ on-going series. Live it!”
“Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.”

Source : Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.123, Vintage Canada
“My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.”
“I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.”
“Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.220

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