"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."

-- Tony Hillerman

#Smell Quotes #Wind Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.”
“Im very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.”
“As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.”
“Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!”
“The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.”
“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.”
“Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.”

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