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“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
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“The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.”
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“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”
Source : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics
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“Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.”
Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.83, Hal Leonard Corporation
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“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,†(fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”
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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
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“If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.”
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“I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.”
Source : Song: Like There Ain't No Yesterday, Album: Strong Enough
