"It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness."

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Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

Coventry Patmore

#Darkness Quotes #Blind Quotes

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
“Anytime I am doing something that will help someone in any way, whether it is a simple recipe, a tip, a decoration thing, or a life-change thing, it brings me to life and inspires me to do more of it.”

Source : "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.”
“I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.
“I'm scared to death to fly commercial I have not flown commercial since 9/11.”
“The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.”
“When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.”

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