"Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another."

-- Susan Hill

#Time Quotes #Spring Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.”
“I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.”
“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago
“A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.”
“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.”
“I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.”

Source : "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.
“there Â are Â other Â senses Â -ÂÂ secret Â senses, Â sixth Â senses, Â if Â you Â will Â -Â Â equallyÂ vital, Â but Â unrecognized, Â and Â unlauded.”
“The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.”

Source : Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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