"It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met."

-- Yoshida Kenko

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.”
“Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.”
“Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.”
“I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.”

Source : "I was very greedy, says Enron trial's star witness" by Richard Wray, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.
“What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.”
“We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.”
“So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.”
“It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.”

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