"Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward."

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Source : Roberto Calasso (1993). “The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

Roberto Calasso

#Stories Quotes #Branches Quotes

“A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.56
“Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"”
“I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.”
“How far should a person go in the name of true love?”

Source : "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.
“Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: Â learn to write better.”
“[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.”
“I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.”
“There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.”

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