"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

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Source : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

Jessamyn West

#Broken Heart Quotes #Forever Quotes #Bones Quotes

“Surfing is so unique and it's something that no matter what level you are, you can go and have fun. You can pick and choose the waves that you want to surf, so if it is too big and scary, you can wait until it changes and gets more to your level. Every time you go out it's always different and unique. It's almost like a place you can just de-stress.”
“Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.”
“And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.”
“I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.”

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“I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.”
“Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.”
“At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.”
“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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