"But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow."

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Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

Alexandra Fuller

#Rocks Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Rainbow Quotes

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.”
“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”

Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
“Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.”
“When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”
“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant â€œI try and I achieve.”
“I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.”
“I believe in angels, so it's simple.”

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