"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

#Bereavement Quotes #Matter Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Smell the sea and feel the sky.”

Source : Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic
“When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”
“That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.”
“Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.”
“Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.”
“Enthusiasm is a divine possession.”
“I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.”
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

Source : Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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