"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."

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Source : Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”

Zona Gale

#Preparation Quotes #Digestion Quotes

“A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.”
“The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.”
“One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.”
“Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.”
“I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.”
“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”
“No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.”
“Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.”

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