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“I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.”

Faces Birth Quiet Eternity

Book:A Separate War and Other Stories

Source: A Separate War and Other Stories

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.”

Knows Giving Ideas Process Rooms Brain Produce Birth Quiet Paper Retiring Pencils Giving Birth Painless Quiet Room Sharp Pencils

Book:Norman Rockwell's people

Source: Norman Rockwell's people