"I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Beauty Quotes #Nature Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“I love proving people wrong.”
“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”

Source : Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.7, Canongate Books
“The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.”
“When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.”
“Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.”
“...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14
“you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.”

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