"a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton."

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Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.259, University of Georgia Press

Julia Peterkin

#Dust Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Cotton Quotes

“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
“Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.”
“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”
“T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about. That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.”
“The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being a frivolous add-on.”
“Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”
“We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffeeâ€”but there are no instant adults.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.54, Penguin
“All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2011.

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