"Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water."

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Source : Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

Tim Winton

#Memories Quotes #Water Quotes #Strongest Quotes

“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.”
“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”
“You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.”

Source : "Score one for originality" by Chuck Crisafulli, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2006.
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
“I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.”

Source : Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr
“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”

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