"Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand."

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Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

#Hands Quotes #Feet Quotes #Raspberries Quotes

“These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldnâ€™t be human.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album”, p.66, Faber & Faber
“Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.”

Source : "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.
“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”
“I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.”
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.”
“The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.”
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .”

Source : "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.
“Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.”

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