"Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?"

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Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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“White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.”
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”

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“I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.”
“I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.”

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“Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.”
“The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.”
“It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.”

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