"The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!"

-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

#Doe Quotes #Dry Quotes #Shallow Quotes

“Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.”
“God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals”
“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK
“It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.”
“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.”
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
“I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.”
“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”

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