Penelope Lively The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. – Penelope Lively Bomb Quotes Concerned Quotes Cupboard Quotes Interfere Quotes Photograph Quotes Power Quotes Time Quotes It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. I’ve always been fascinated by the operation of memory – the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Saint Teresa of Avila What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? – Saint Teresa of Avila
Alain de Botton I’m one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I’ve come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance – a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think. – Alain de Botton
Junipero Serra As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. – Junipero Serra
Stelios Haji-Ioannou On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, ‘Thank you,’ I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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