"I look back to a happy childhood."

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Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.20, Wakefield Press

Catherine Helen Spence

#Childhood Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.”
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”
“Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.65, The Overlook Press
“The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.”

Source : Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”
“The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”
“I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.”
“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

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