"Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place."

-- William Least Heat-Moon

#Community Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”
“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”
“The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film very little and always when something excites me and seems to mean something for the film.”
“Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.”

Source : c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.
“Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.”
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”
“I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.”
“Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”

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