"Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better"

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Source : Kevin Henkes (1996). “Lilly's purple plastic purse”

Kevin Henkes

#Today Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
“Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.”
“There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”
“Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).”
“Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.”
“An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.”
“The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.”

Source : Linda Gordon (2002). “The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

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