"... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring."

-- Edward Augustus Bowles

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“The scalpel won't make you happy.”
“Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.”
“As far as I'm concerned, leopard is a neutral.”

Source : "Changing Your Spots: New Animal Prints to Wear This Fall" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. Jul 15, 2016.
“... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it.”
“Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.”
“When I see what I want, I do it.”
“For everyone who thought I couldnâ€™t do itâ€¦ for everyone who thought I shouldnâ€™t do itâ€¦ for everyone who said, â€˜Itâ€™s impossibleâ€™â€¦ see you at the finish line!”

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