"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

-- Robert H. Schuller

#Death Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.”
“Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.”
“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.”
“Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books
“Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally self-congratulatory half-truths to explain how it happened that he ascended to that particular pinnacle. Often because original motivations don't seem to have much in common with the eventual success, the real and rationalized motivations are difficult to separate.”
“You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.”
“As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.”
“Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.”

Source : "Connecticut Governor, Tackling Budget, Criticizes Christie’s Approach". Interview with David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2011.

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