"We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe."

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Don Paterson

#Fall Quotes #Light Quotes #Safety Quotes

“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”
“Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.”
“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.”
“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
“To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.”
“I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.”
“I see the cure is not worth the pain.”

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