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    Jasper Fforde
    “Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
    tags: bacon, hot-baths, humour, problem, reconnaissance, tea, time, wisdom
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    Henry James
    “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
    ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: tea
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “What kind of tea do you want?"
    "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
    "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey."
    -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
    tags: choices, tea
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    Sydney Smith
    “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
    ― Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
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    D.T. Suzuki
    “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
    ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture
    tags: tea, transcendence, universe, zen
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    Jane Austen
    “But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: humor, tea
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    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
    ― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
    tags: domesticity, prettiness, tea, victorian-society, women
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “We had a kettle; we let it leak:
    Our not repairing made it worse.
    We haven't had any tea for a week...
    The bottom is out of the Universe.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
    tags: loss, repair, tea, universe, world
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    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    ― Lu T'ung
    tags: awesomeness, tea
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, feminism, women
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
    tags: craving, desire, life, nostalgia, seasons, spring, wanderlust
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    Roman Payne
    “So the nymphs they spoke,
    we kissed and laid.
    By noontime’s hour
    our love was made.

    Like braided chains of crocus stems,
    we lay entwined, I laid with them.
    Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,
    our bodies draping wearily,
    we slept, I slept so lucidly,
    with hopes to stay this memory.”
    ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
    tags: coming-of-spring, love, nymphs, poetry, sleep, spring
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
    ― E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
    tags: hope, love, nature, spring
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    Audre Lorde
    “I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Dante Alighieri
    “In that book which is my memory,
    On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
    Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
    ― Rainbow Rowell , Attachments
    tags: autumn, fall, october
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    Jane Austen
    “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Ray Bradbury
    “That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: autumn, dark, fall, quiet
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    Jim Bishop
    “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
    ― Jim Bishop
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    Roman Payne
    “All I want in this life are three...
    a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
    a breath of opium,
    and thee.”
    ― Roman Payne
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    Keri Hulme
    “A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.”
    ― Keri Hulme
    tags: moon, moonlight, woman
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    Robert Frost
    “We ran as if to meet the moon.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: moon, poetry, robert-frost
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    Sanober Khan
    “it was the kind of moon
    that I would want to
    send back to my ancestors
    and gift to my descendants

    so they know that I too,
    have been bruised...by beauty.”
    ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
    tags: ancestors, beauty, bruised, bruises, descendants, indian-authors, moon, moonlight, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets
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    Walt Whitman
    “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: alone, help, inspirational, light, world
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
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    Peter Matthiessen
    “The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
    ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
    tags: life, mountains, peace
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    Anatoli Boukreev
    “Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”
    ― Anatoli Boukreev
    tags: mountains
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    Sanober Khan
    “moonlight disappears down the hills
    mountains vanish into fog
    and i vanish into poetry.”
    ― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
    tags: alone, fog, hills, moonlight, mountains, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, solitude, vanish
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