"If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed."

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Source : Ethel Smyth (1987). “The memoirs of Ethel Smyth”, Viking Pr

Ethel Smyth

#Dog Quotes #Distance Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.”
“Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
“Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.”
“That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”
“I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.”
“One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1870). “Stories and Tales”, p.485
“Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.”
“It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do”

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.1261, e-artnow

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