"I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness,"

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Katherine Anne Porter

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Wilderness Quotes

“Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.”
“In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.”
“But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.66
“Horses (thou say'st) and ***** men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.”
“You're up to something," I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?" "Yeah, you,”
“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the worldâ€™s ills... Yet many of the worldâ€™s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man”
“Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.”
“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”

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