"Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?"

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William Makepeace Thackeray

#Littles Quotes #Chapters Quotes

“How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!”

Source : Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press
“In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.”
“As a writer, I could write in Canada and still get the American benefits. But I wanted to come down here for the good weather and for the parties, I want to be social too. Being in LA is really great for that, for just running out and grabbing coffee with another writer. I couldn't do that in Canada. I love Los Angeles, and I love New York too; I just couldn't raise three kids there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.”
“When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.”
“The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.”
“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.”
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

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