"Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound."

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Source : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “In the Palomar Arms: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

Hilma Wolitzer

#Time Quotes #Blood Quotes #Pulse Quotes

“In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.”
“We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what weâ€™re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the â€œthick of thin things.â€ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.”
“Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.”
“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”
“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”

Source : Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 574, 1895.
“But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at dataâ€”something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.”
“Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.”

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