"Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againâ€¦ I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene Oâ€™Neill were laughing."

-- Woody Allen

#Mother Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Night Quotes

“I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.”
“The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identitiesâ€¦”
“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”
“People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians”
“One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.”
“Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.”
“A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.”

Source : Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press
“There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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