"Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us."

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Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp

Osbert Sitwell

#Blood Quotes #Tree Quotes #Scarlet Quotes

“There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.”
“There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.”
“Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.”
“I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them...”
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“I try to simplify things for the children.”
“If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.”
“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club”

Source : Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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