"When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff."

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Source : Joseph Boyden (2009). “Through Black Spruce: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

Joseph Boyden

#Niece Quotes #Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.”
“History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.”
“A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.”
“They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.”
“I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.”

Source : "Anne Robinson: My husband was the weakest link... but now I'm looking for a new man". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 29, 2009.
“Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
“Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island - the Ã®le d'OlÃ©ron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance. I learned music even before I learned to read. I always read books beyond my years.”
“the great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...”

Source : Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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