"The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin."

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Source : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

Jan Struther

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“I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.”
“Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,”
“Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.”
“Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.”
“Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.”
“I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
“I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.”
“I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.

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