"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Meteors Quotes #Thunderbolts Quotes

“I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.”
“Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”
“You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.”
“I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.”
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.11, Knopf
“You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.”
“I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.”
“I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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