"It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story."

-- Eve Ensler

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”

Source : Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”
“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”
“In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.”
“I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.”
“To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.”
“Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.”
“They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.”

Source : "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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