#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes
“I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.”
“To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...”
“I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.”
“Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.”
“Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.”
“Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'”
Source : Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster
“Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.”
“Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.”
