"It takes two flints to make a fire."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which Iâ€™d given up on. Thank you for proving to me itâ€™s not just a fairy tale.”
“Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple”
“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.”
“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.”

Source : "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It never failedâ€”I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.”
“Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.”
“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

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