"I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Garth Greenwell

#Nonfiction Quotes #Hints Quotes #Boundaries Quotes

“Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.”
“Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist sÃ©ance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.”
“Nothingâ€™s worse than a story without an end.”
“I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.”
“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere ...”
“Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (1982). “Theme Gardens”, Workman Publishing Company
“Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.”
“Care less about what other people think because at the end of the day, everyone is so worried about themselves & how they are coming across that nobody is actually judging as much as y'all think they are.”

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