"Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death."

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Source : Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

Martha Ostenso

#Death Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Independence Quotes

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”
“If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2008). “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan
“I always try to have a vacation.”
“A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.”
“Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.”
“There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.”
“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”
“None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.”

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