"We are the wise. Do not envy usâ€” We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdomâ€” We who are too wise to live Lest we should die."

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Source : Lois Duncan, Rudy Gutierrez (1999). “Trapped!: Cages of Mind and Body”, Simon Pulse

Lois Duncan

#Wise Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Fire Quotes

“The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.”
“It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!”
“Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.”
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”
“I am I because my little dog knows me.”

Source : Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press
“In live stage, the actor lives.”
“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.”
“I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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