"Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!"

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Source : Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

Olive Schreiner

“I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.”
“My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.”
“It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.”
“Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'â€”blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.”
“That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”
“In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.”

Source : Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.625, Thomas Nelson Inc

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