"I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence."

-- Celine Sciamma

#Writing Quotes #Water Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”
“In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, 'I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.' If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.”
“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.”
“Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.”
“As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.”
“Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.”
“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”
“We are born knowing death.”

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