"A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds."

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Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

Sonya Hartnett

#Eye Quotes #Bird Quotes #Towns Quotes

“When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.”
“It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.”
“I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.”
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”

Source : "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.
“The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.”
“Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.”

Source : Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.24, Faber & Faber
“We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.”
“When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?”

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