"When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (1981). “The Bay of Noon”, Berkley Publishing Group

Shirley Hazzard

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes

“Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.”
“No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.”
“Hail the day that sees Him rise, Ravished from our wistful eyes! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Re-ascends His native heaven. There the glorious triumph waits, Lift your heads, eternal gates! Wide unfold the radiant scene, Take the King of glory in!”
“Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.”
“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”
“My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.”
“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

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