"There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer."

-- Edward Hoagland

#Summer Quotes #Cities Quotes #Age Quotes

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
“Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.”
“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”
“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”

Source : Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.200, Indie Ink Publishing
“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.”
“How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.”
“A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.”
“If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.”

You may also like:

Annie Dillard
Author
Barry Lopez
Author
Edward Abbey
Author
Geoffrey Wolff
Novelist
Gretel Ehrlich
Writer
Howard Frank Mosher
Author
Loren Eiseley
Science writer
Phillip Lopate
Film critic
Scott Sanders
Novelist