"The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living."

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Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

Nancy Spain

#Beautiful Quotes #Book Quotes #World Quotes

“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”
“A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?”
“I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.”
“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”
“The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.”
“I used to work the graveyard shift.”
“Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.”
“When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.”

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