"Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives."

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Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

Carol Bly

#Dream Quotes #Dog Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.”
“Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.”
“Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.”
“...every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great plops into your lap, that's how it was with "Hotel California".. a leased beach house in Malibu ... all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day probably in 1975 ... soaking wet ... thinking the world is a wonderful place to be... with an acoustic 12 string ... those chords just oozed out.”
“I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.”
“The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.”
“Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.”
“Success is buried in the garden of failure.”

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