"Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared."

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Mother Quotes #Stones Quotes #Beloved Quotes

“All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.”
“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.”
“If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.”
“All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity”
“Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.”
“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.”

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