"Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything."

-- Gail Caldwell

#Night Quotes #Relief Quotes #Ends Quotes

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”
“The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.”
“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”
“The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.”

Source : "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.
“Everybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't.”
“The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.”
“A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.”
“I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.”

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