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Diane Ackerman has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,…
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
— E. W. Howe
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions.…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that…
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the…
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Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk…
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