"Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go."

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Robert Benton

#Prettiness Quotes #Areas Quotes

“If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.”
“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.”
“GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.”
“And it's just a hunt?" Bea asked. "Just tracking the guy down, or are we going to have to do a little covering up of our own?" Had she just told me she was willing to kill someone and cover it up? She gave me a happy smile, but that glint in her eyes told me that, yes, she'd just offered to off someone.”
“Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.”

Source : Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.”
“When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.”
“A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

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