"The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is."

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.38, Macmillan

Aleksandar Hemon

#Perfect Quotes #Should Quotes #Borscht Quotes

“I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.”
“Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as the dancing mushroom. According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.”

Source : "Maitake: The Magnificent ‘Dancing’ Mushroom" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.
“If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?”

Source : Reflections upon Marriage, 3rd ed., preface (1706)
“Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.”
“It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.”
“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”
“I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.”

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