"How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time. Your smile was everywhere." He lowered his voice and added, "Sometimes when people were talking commonplaces and your name happened to be mentioned, It would go through my heart like an electric current."

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Source : Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.213, The Floating Press

Henri Barbusse

#Heart Quotes #Names Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”
“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”
“I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.”

Source : Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...
“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”
“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”
“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

Source : Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press
“O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.”
“As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.”

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