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To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be— *that* was magical.


Ransom Riggs


#survival #whimsy #life

One summer afternoon I came home and found all the umbrellas sitting in the kitchen, with straw hats on, telling who they are. ... The umbrella that peels the potatoes with a pencil and makes a pink ink with the peelings stood up and said, "I am the umbrella that peels the potatoes with a pencil and makes a pink ink with the peelings." ... The umbrella that runs to the corner to get corners for the handkerchiefs stood up and said, "I am the umbrella that runs to the corner to get corners for the handkerchiefs." ... "I am the umbrella that holds up the sky. I am the umbrella the rain comes through. I am the umbrella that tells the sky when to begin raining and when to stop raining. "I am the umbrella that goes to pieces when the wind blows and then puts itself back together again when the wind goes down. I am the first umbrella, the last umbrella, the one and only umbrella all other umbrellas are named after, first, last and always." When the stranger finished this speech telling who he was and where he came from, all the other umbrellas sat still for a little while, to be respectful.


Carl Sandburg


#respect

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.


Paul Thomas Anderson


#confusing #fan #i #never #storytelling

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.


Drew Barrymore


#childish #definitely #else #ever #fantastic

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.


Drew Barrymore


#adult #always #danger #day #die

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.


Nadia Boulanger


#best #bring #child #difficult #giving

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.


Harriet Van Horne


#broadcasting #few #flick #history #much

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.


Mwai Kibaki


#individuals #longer #run #whims #will

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.


John Burnham Schwartz


#philosophy #time #vision #whimsy #life

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.


Erin Morgenstern


#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i






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