"there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Miles Franklin

#Law Quotes #Invisible Quotes #Indirect Quotes

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”
“If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.”
“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
“I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”
“I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.”

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