"My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly."

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Source : Judith Kelman (2005). “Where Shadows Fall”, Jove

Judith Kelman

#Clay Quotes #May Quotes #My Sister Quotes

“I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.”
“In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.”
“Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”
“Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.”
“Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.”
“I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.”
“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.”
“At uni I met a lot of people I had nothing in common with. Some were very clever, some very rich, some very sporty. Some of them became my best friends, but not at first. Having things in common isn't always the best start to a friendship. I'd stick with it! Also, try to chat to people when they're on their own. So many people feel they need to perform in big groups.”

Source : "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.

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