"Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves."

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Honore de Balzac

#Heart Quotes #Doe Quotes #Gloves Quotes

“We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.”
“I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.”
“And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.”

Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”
“Education will lead to understanding; understanding will lead to action. Education and understanding are going to be key to moving us forward. That's why I take every opportunity I can to try to educate Canadian people on the impact of intergenerational trauma. To tell them how, until 1951, indigenous people weren't allowed to leave the reserve without a permit. That it was illegal for a lawyer to give us advice. It was illegal for us to sell our wood, our cattle, without a permit. I want the next generation to understand we have endured, we have persevered and we are getting stronger.”
“Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.”
“A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.”
“Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.”
“Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.”

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