"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads."

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Source : Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

Joan Lindsay

#Hate Quotes #War Quotes #Dark Quotes

“How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?”
“The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.”
“I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.”
“Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.”
“The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.”
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
“Let silence take you to the core of life.”
“A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.”

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