Clark Blaise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.
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Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.
-- Clark Blaise
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
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When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
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It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
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The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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