Quotes
Authors
Malvina Reynolds

"Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?"

-- Malvina Reynolds

#Fall Quotes #Rain Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.”
“Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.”

Source : Sara Paretsky (2011). “Deadlock”, p.190, Dell
“It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.”
“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
“I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.”
“You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
“I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?”

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