"I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out."

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Source : Frank O'Connor (1981). “Collected stories”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

Frank O'Connor

#World Quotes #Littles Quotes #Hiding Quotes

“And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.”
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
“Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.”
“It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.”
“Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrowâ€™s dust flares into breath.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Knopf
“No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.”
“To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples...”
“Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.”

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