"I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair."

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Source : Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.16, Granta Books

Norman Rush

#Heartbreak Quotes #Hair Quotes #Way Quotes

“The way to be nothing is to do nothing.”
“All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.”

Source : "Theater Pros Debate Multi-Cultural Casts - Speech By Playwright August Wilson Ignites A Controversy At Conference" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. July 07, 1996.
“I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.”
“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1891). “Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff”, London : Cassell
“Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.”
“I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.”
“I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.”

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