"Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms."

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Source : Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

Kate Braverman

#Children Quotes #Fire Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]”
“Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.”
“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”
“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”
“Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.”
“Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
“I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.”

Source : "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.
“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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