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“Having obtained your design, and buried your rocks, your next task is to exercise phenomenal restraint about the things which you put in. I have always been a fervent advocate of birth-control, but since I have been the owner of a rock garden my fervour has increased a hundred-fold. The prolificacy of the common saxifrage is positively embarrassing. The speed with which the rock rose reproduces itself brings a blush to the cheek. Violas appear to have absolutely no self-control, and as for the alyssum . . . well, if we behaved like the alyssum, Australia would be over-populated before the year is out.”
― Beverley Nichols, Down the Garden Path

“If you’ve made something that brings joy to yourself and to others, even if it’s only a few people, you’re a success.”
― Justin McElroy, Everybody Has a Podcast

“GOD, THESE STORIES ARE ALL THE SAME. “THIS PERSON HAD PARENTS, BUT THEY ALSO HAD COUSINS AND EVEN A SIBLING OR TWO. THERE WAS A MARRIAGE SOMEHOW, BUT TO WHOM? YOU GUESSED IT! ANOTHER PERSON! WHO WAS THEN KILLED! BUT SOMETIMES PEOPLE HEAR A MEOWING AND SEE THE SHADOW OF A CLOWN!”
― Ryan Bergara, BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural: 101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal

“How absurd to call youth the time of happiness–youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile