"About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal."

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Christina Stead

#Art Quotes #Animal Quotes #Wander Quotes

“All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.”
“When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”
“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin
“What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”
“Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.”
“The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.”

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