"To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room."

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Maureen Corrigan

#Doors Quotes #Hawks Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.”
“I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.”
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
“Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.”
“Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.”
“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”
“The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
“I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.”

Source : "U.S. Open: Andy Roddick takes center stage Friday". News conference, content.usatoday.com. August 31, 2012.

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