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Ellen Raskin
"Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows."
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Source : Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin
Ellen Raskin
#Blow Quotes
#Wind Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Faith is a total attitude of the self.”
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“I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.”
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“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”
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“I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.”
Source : "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.
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“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
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“Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
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“...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.”
Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.30, Pan Macmillan
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“I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!”