"If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky."

-- Edwin Way Teale

#Spiritual Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Song Quotes

“I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.”
“The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
“Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.”

Source : Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles
“I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.”
“Why do dying people never shed tears?”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess...”

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