Kylie Tennant quotes

“Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.”
-- Kylie Tennant

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“Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.”
-- Kylie Tennant

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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“When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?”
-- Kylie Tennant

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

#Thinking Quotes #Reason Quotes #Loving Him Quotes

“The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.”
-- Kylie Tennant

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“once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.”
-- Kylie Tennant

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“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”
-- Kylie Tennant

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

#Men Quotes #Cities Quotes #Community Quotes

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.”

“Magic likes a good tragedy, too.”

“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”