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“You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.”
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“If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.”
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“When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.”
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“The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.”
Source : Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Knopf
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“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”
Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
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“UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.”
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“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
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“I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.”
