"This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness...."

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Source : Ted Kooser (2004). “Delights & Shadows: Poems”, p.84, Copper Canyon Press

Ted Kooser

#Book Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.”
“Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.”
“You've got to play with pride and guts.”
“Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.”
“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”
“My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.”
“We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.”

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