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Quote by Diane Ackerman
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just li

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – 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 summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

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Nature
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

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Sky & Clouds
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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Poetry
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Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? – Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950

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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when Im awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway

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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I dont live my life that way, and I dont feel thats what Bahaullah teaches. – Rainn Wilson

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God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Watts Mumford

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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – Walter Lippmann

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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow

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