"Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie."

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Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Ellen Glasgow

#Valleys Quotes #Sanctuary Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“Photography is a generous mediumâ€¦”
“We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.”
“When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.”
“Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and thenâ€¦ justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.”

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin
“To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.”
“Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.”
“I will defend the peso like a dog!”
“And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain”

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