"It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream."

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Kim Stanley

#Sound Quotes #World Quotes #Waterfalls Quotes

“Home is not fixed - the feeling of home changes as you change. There are places that used to feel like home that don't feel like home anymore. Like, I would go back to Rome to see my parents, and I would feel at home then. But if my parents were not in Rome, which is my city where I was born, I would not feel at home. It's connected to people. It's connected to a person I love.”
“I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many peopleâ€”who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselvesâ€”would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.”

Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.27, Hachette UK
“Drunk nerds. Not my thing.â€ â€œYou like nerds.â€ â€œNot nerds who join fraternities,â€ Cath said. â€œThatâ€™s a whole subclass of nerds that Iâ€™m not interested in.”
“Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.”
“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”
“Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.”
“I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing”
“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

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