"Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm."

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Source : Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anthony Shadid

#Believe Quotes #Artist Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
“There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.”
“After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.”
“It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Lone Drow: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy”, p.171, Wizards of the Coast
“Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.”
“True education is a kind of never ending story â€” a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
“Rush is the death of marriage.”
“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

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