"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."

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Source : Nadine Gordimer (2005). “Get a Life”

Nadine Gordimer

#Birthday Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”

Source : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10
“Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.”
“Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.”
“Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun.”
“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
“I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.”
“So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.”

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