"You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place."

-- Mark Shields

“When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand.”
“Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.”
“I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.”
“A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.”
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”

Source : "Bring Up the Bodies". Book by Hilary Mantel, May 8, 2012.
“I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.”
“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

Source : "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.
“Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.”

Source : "The man who got it right". The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 13, p. 72, August 15, 2013.

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