"Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world"

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Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.58, Penguin

Dorothy Allison

#Heart Quotes #Two Quotes #Three Quotes

“Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...”

Source : Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”
“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”
“Music is the love of my life. Itâ€™s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.”
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
“In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.”

Source : Paul Johnson (2012). “History of Christianity”, p.720, Simon and Schuster
“As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.”
“I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.”
“As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.”

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