"We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast"

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Aunt Quotes #Looks Quotes #Beast Quotes

“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”
“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”
“She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.”

Source : Damon Runyon (1981). “The bloodhounds of Broadway and other stories”, William Morrow & Company
“We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.”
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.”
“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”
“Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.”
“First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.”

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