"I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds."

-- Anais Nin

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“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Source : Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
“According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.”
“Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.
“I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.”
“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”

Source : "Death from the Skies!". Book by Phil Plait, 2008.
“Iâ€™m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also arenâ€™t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and donâ€™t want to be around them.”
“There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.”
“Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.”

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