"There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance."

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Source : Joy Williams (2010). “Taking Care”, p.210, Vintage

Joy Williams

#Dream Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Type Quotes

“New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.”
“I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?”
“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”
“He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it.”
“It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”
“I do not judge the universe.”
“I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.”
“It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!”

Source : Arthur Guiterman, “Our Suburb”

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