"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."

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Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Tree Quotes #Earth Quotes #Possession Quotes

“I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.”
“One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.”
“Iâ€™d rather trust and regret than doubt and regret.”
“My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.”
“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”
“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.113, Modern Library
“I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.”

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