"A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by."

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.137, Northwestern University Press

Phyllis Bottome

#Change Quotes #Growth Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa”
“The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?”
“I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.”
“It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.”
“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”
“Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.”
“Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.”
“Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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