"A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed,……" — Diane Ackerman
"A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it."
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Diane Ackerman
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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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…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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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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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that…
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
— Francois Magendie
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size…
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