"It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs."

-- John Brunner

#Your Side Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Sides Quotes

“For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”
“There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.”
“I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.”
“Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.”
“A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.”
“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. Thatâ€™s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.46, A&C Black
“She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.”
“My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley" by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, New York (p. 68), 1988.

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