"I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."

-- James Thurber

#Fall Quotes #Simple Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”
“I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.”
“He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night.”
“It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.”
“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”
“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
“Youâ€™re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.”
“Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.”

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