"Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend."

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Source : Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber

Keith Douglas

#Happiness Quotes #Hate Quotes #Cat Quotes

“Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God....”
“Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!”
“Can I still dunk... Are you stupid?”
“I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.”
“Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.”
“Poetry is an act of peace.”
“An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.”
“Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.”

Source : "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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