"When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes."

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Source : "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (song) (1933)

Otto Harbach

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“My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.”
“A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.”
“God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.”
“A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.
“In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.”
“Sometimes isolation can be shared.”
“Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.”
“Perhaps that is what life is all aboutâ€”the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.”

Source : Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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