"Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all youâ€™ve learned about the grand themes of life."

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Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.130, Macmillan

Carl Safina

#Thinking Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Two Quotes

“French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.”
“Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.”
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
“Every idea has its time.”
“The joy of juxtaposition is endless.”
“Only he [Gordon Gekko] is a lot smarter than [Donald] Trump.”
“A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it”

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