"The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ..."

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Patricia Moyes

#Building Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”
“Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.”
“We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.83, Random House
“I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.”
“No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.”

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.142, Macmillan
“The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, p.261, Edward Bellamy
“Itâ€™s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. Itâ€™s like being in a trance - itâ€™s a fluid - and you almost donâ€™t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.”
“My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.”

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