"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

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Source : FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016

Mary Oliver

#Life Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes

“I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.”
“My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.”

Source : Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.78, Penguin
“I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.”
“Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.”
“On the road, the WWE is a family. The divas are my sisters, and like any big brother, I don't want creeps around my little sisters.”
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
“A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.”
“The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me,”

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