"...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child."

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Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

James Crumley

#Morning Quotes #Children Quotes #Rose Quotes

“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”

Source : Program notes to "Avak The Healer", 1946.
“This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.”
“When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.”
“As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers
“As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.”
“Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.”

Source : Source: www.china.org.cn
“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!”
“I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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