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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗


— Ayn Rand


#background #himself #his #however #man

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. ↗


— Mo Yan


#continue #describing #emotions #feet #ground

It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the Bakerloo conclusively became brown, a very early twentieth-century brown, which brings something of the nineteenth century with it - the colour of Sherlock Holmes's pipe, a Gladstone bag, a grandfather clock. ↗


— Paul Morley


#brown #gladstone-bag #london-underground #sherlock-holmes #change

I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26) ↗


— Stephen Levine


#dying #healing #love #sacred-ground #death

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue. ↗


— Sara Teasdale


#in-a-burying-ground #life #soul #death

I could not become anything: neither bad nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. ↗


— Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#notes-from-the-underground #intelligence

Vegetables come from the ground. So does my love. Eat it raw.
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— Jarod Kintz


#love #raw #vegetables #love

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. ↗


— Willie Aames


#bible #claim #get #getting #god

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. ↗


— Tori Amos


#cornwall #fantasy #grounded #i #know






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