Quotes of the Week

16-22 June 2024

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This week I dipped into my reserve of quotes that have helped me in the past. I keep a lot of my quotes in the address book of my label maker. Here are several quotes that I print off and stick in my journals for inspiration.

Sunday

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the

windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Monday

All quivers, all kindles, all burns clear.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Tuesday

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light

and shadow.

  Leo Tolstoy

Wednesday

How should we confirm the missingness of everything we haven’t ever been allowed

to speak into a shape?

Scherezade Siobhan, Radius

Thursday

It's always tea-time.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Friday

I am different from everybody else because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me and it becomes manifested when I am in

harmonious communication with some other inspired being like myself.

Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

Saturday

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange

themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you have inspiring and intriguing quotes to share, please reach out. I’d love to include them here.

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Have a joyous, productive and dread-free week, friends.