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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.”

Ifs Kind May Mean Character Used Left Wise Sorrow Conflict Elements Gold Disappointment Improvement Metals Providence Arrangements Affliction Crucible Dross

Author:William Morley Punshon

“After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.”

Feels Writing Long Fiction Information Elements Discovery Gold Nonfiction Writing Fiction

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Of course I love leather, and I love stingray. So combining the two and adding those gold elements - I always love a great gold accessory.”

Two Courses Elements Gold Leather Accessories Combining

Author:Olivia Palermo

“I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.”

Different Bigs Would Be Numbers Elements Gold Ugly Cards Odd Silver Chemistry Hung Ninety Labs Good Words Gold And Silver Perfectly Good Aluminum Decimals Abbreviations Cobalt

Author:Sylvia Plath

“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

Ifs Has Beens Reason Values Water Economy Elements All Things Gold Opposites Metaphor Locked Ecology Locked Up Mobility Fluidity

Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.”

Elements Gold Sodium

Author:Oliver Sacks

“We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.”

Two Different Play Games Minutes Elements Stones Gold Hockey Preparing Medal Gold Medals Stepping Stones

Author:Cherie Piper

“There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.”

Elements Weakness Gold Weight Loyalty Multitudes Worth It

Author:Philip Danforth Armour