"I am not a person to say the words out loud I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page: know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other than my tongue the quiet love the silent rage."

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Source : Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA

Keri Hulme

#Thinking Quotes #Silence Quotes #Pages Quotes

“How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?”

Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope (2001). “The Sherwood Ring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.”
“Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.”
“Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.”
“All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.”
“my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.”
“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I donâ€™t know who I am at all. And either way Iâ€™m not happy.”
“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”

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