"To lose a passport was the least of oneâ€™s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe"

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Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

Bruce Chatwin

#Notebook Quotes #Worry Quotes #Passports Quotes

“I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."”
“One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.”

Source : "Michael Arndt Discusses Toy Story 3" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 02, 2010.
“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”
“Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Jul 17, 2012
“My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.”
“Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.”

Source : Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub
“The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.”
“I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.”

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