"Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs."

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Source : Jack Smith (1976). “The big orange”

Jack Smith

#Dog Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.”
“Thus we can see that â€“ at least at the level of economics â€“ democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.”
“Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.”
“Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.”

Source : Nell Newman (2003). “The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live”, Villard Books
“An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme BayÂ â€” Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern legÂ â€” and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.”
“If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones ...”
“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

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