"We are a nation of shop keepers."

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Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Keepers Quotes #Shops Quotes

“When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.”

Source : Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press
“In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.”
“The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.”
“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”
“Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.”

Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
“Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on.”
“The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.”

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