Nicole Raine
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The Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, with its soft antiseptic wood, was the darling of the Celtic kitchen. Butter and milk was safe in its keeping, for its wood kept rancidity away.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
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“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
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