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Lord Dunsany

"Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song."

Source : Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, p.4, Booklassic

Lord Dunsany

#Song Quotes #Spring Quotes #Twilight Quotes

“All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.”
“When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late youâ€™d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.”

Source : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”
“Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.”
“Iâ€™d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.”
“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.”
“Once a Jew always a Jew.”

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