"I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes."

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Teju Cole

#Writing Quotes #Divorce Quotes #Plies Quotes

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
“I think there is a guy called Michael. It looks as though heâ€™s got a talent. He will make his way to F1.”
“I think we should all earn our place in the world. [...] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.”
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

Source : Jennifer McMahon (2014). “The Winter People: A Novel”, p.22, Anchor
“The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.”
“Yes,â€ said Mamma, â€œthis is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.”
“What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!”

Source : W. H. Davies (2015). “The True Traveller: A Reader”, p.234, Carcanet Press Ltd
“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.”

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