"Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none."

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Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Monique Truong

#Running Quotes #Wall Quotes #Moving Quotes

“If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.”
“At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.”
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”

Source : Obituary in Century Magazine, 1887.
“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.”
“Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.”
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”

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