"There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness."

-- Jan Struther

#Stars Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Air Quotes

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.”
“Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.”
“Really to sin you have to be serious about it.”
“At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!”
“Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.”
“My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.”

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