"Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea."

-- Katherine Dunn

#Cat Quotes #Air Quotes #Sea Quotes

“We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.”
“If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.”
“No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.”

Source : "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.
“One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.”
“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”

Source : "The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism" by Susie Linfield, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2012.
“Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.”

Source : Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904
“She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.”
“Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.”

Source : "A Darwinian theory of beauty". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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