"A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things."

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Source : Martha Ostenso (1938). “The Mandrake Root”

Martha Ostenso

#Shapes Quotes #Sickness Quotes #Illness Quotes

“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”

Source : Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”
“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.”
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurtsâ€”not to hurt others.”
“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
“International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find...”
“She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
“The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.”

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