"Let things taste of what they are."

--

Alice Waters

“Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favorite verse in one poem or another... But a book of their own, made up of their own chosen verses, should give them pleasure.”
“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”
“When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.”
“Cease, cows, life is short.”
“you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.”
“Express your ideas with the world”
“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.”

Source : "L'Heptameron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre (Second Day, Novel XIX; 1558), as translated by Samuel Putnam in his book "Marguerite of Navarre" (p. 53), 1935.

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