"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."

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Source : "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

Leslie Fiedler

#Love Quotes #Voice Quotes #Long Quotes

“Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?”
“If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.”
“At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.”
“Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.”
“Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.”
“I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.”

Source : "Killer Mike addresses Michael Brown shooting on CNN" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2014.
“If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.”

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