"Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become â€˜better organized."

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Source : Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.19, Macmillan

Lydia Davis

#Storm Quotes #One Day Quotes #May Quotes

“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”
“Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.”
“Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.”
“You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.”
“All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.”
“Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”
“The more one knows, the more one simplifies.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”

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