"There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man."

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Source : Maria McCann (2010). “The Wilding”, p.263, Faber & Faber

Maria McCann

#Men Quotes #Tree Quotes #Frozen Quotes

“How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.111, Penguin
“Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.”
“One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.”
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”

Source : W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”
“I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.”
“Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.”
“For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.”

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