"Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn."

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Source : Andrew Solomon (2013). “A Stone Boat: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Solomon

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.”
“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Source : "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.”
“All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.”
“I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.”
“I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and -- using them -- I wrote the first draft of The Thieves of Ostia in two weeks. I go back to his teachings before each new book I write. Each time I study Truby, I learn something new.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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