"How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow."

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Source : Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.122, Algonquin Books

Marlena De Blasi

#Snow Quotes #Events Quotes #April Quotes

“I've met every freak in the business.”
“People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.”
“Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.”
“Donâ€™t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.”
“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.
“I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but the throw the feelings away.”
“If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.”
“The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Prologue, 10,

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