"It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy."

-- Margaret Mitchell

#Real Quotes #War Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.”
“What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”
“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.”
“Today, monogamy is one person at a time.”
“I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.”
“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term â€˜heroâ€™ irritates me greatly â€“ the opposite is true â€“ I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

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