"We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance."

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Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance”, p.193, Hachette UK

Winifred Holtby

#Stars Quotes #Distance Quotes #Light Quotes

“Your character is the harvest of your habits.”
“Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.”
“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
“No, you just keep crashing my life. Lookâ€”" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.”
“I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.”
“Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.”
“Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.7
“I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.”

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