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“I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.”
Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books
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“I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose, and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her. Only once in my whole career did it happen that a blonde asked me, 'Please make me look intelligent.' Unfortunately it was impossible.”
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“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”
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“I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.”
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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”
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“I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I was very surprised Barack Obama called Donald Trump "unfit to serve" during a press conference with the prime minister of Singapore. That is the sort of full-weight-of-the-presidency thing that I don't necessarily expect from Obama. So, why did he do it? I think he not only genuinely dislikes Trump but believes Trump would be dangerous as the commander-in-chief.”
Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
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“Rapturous and full bodied performance.”
