"Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows."

-- Jane Smiley

#Happy Birthday Quotes #Winter Quotes #Years Quotes

“My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.”
“Greed is permanent slavery”
“We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.”
“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.”
“When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.”
“No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into...”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber
“I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.”

Source : "Here's Johnny ..." by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2006.
“One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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