"A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted."

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Source : Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

Hope Mirrlees

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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
“I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.”
“[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.”

Source : Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), p. 28, June 1952.
“My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistâ€™s most profound life experiences.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”
“While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”
“The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.”

Source : "Worship Through Giving, Part 2" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.
“Iâ€™ve never felt like Iâ€™ve exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra-late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing, because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because youâ€™ve got boobs. I would have been thrilled if guys were interested in me because of my boobs! Similarly, I think Iâ€™m lucky that Iâ€™ve never had a crisis about whether the only reason Iâ€™m successful is because Iâ€™m crazy hot. Itâ€™s not something that crosses my mind.”
“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.”

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