"Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have."

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Source : Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

Denise Levertov

#Utopian Quotes #Quickness Quotes

“Softness to traitors will destroy us all.”
“Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.”
“Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.97, Penguin
“Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.”
“There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.”
“Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.”
“Do you really like studying?" Mattia nodded. "Why?" "It's the only thing I know how to do," he said shortly. He wanted to tell her that he liked studying because you can do it alone, because all the things you study are already dead, cold, and chewed over. He wanted to tell her that the pages of the schoolbooks were all the same temperature, that they left you time to choose, that they never hurt you and you couldn't hurt them either. But he said nothing.”
“My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.”

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