"Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before."

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Source : Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

Peter Mayle

#Spring Quotes #Rain Quotes #Dirty Quotes

“I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.”
“What I know now is that everybody in life, no matter where you are or what you do, must be able to sell in order to be successful. I used to believe that I could be successful on talent alone. What I realize now is that I can only be successful if I can have people buy my talent.”

Source : "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.
“Being a lad is what I'm about.”
“Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.”
“At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.30, Penguin UK
“Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.”
“I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand”

Source : Song: Ghost!, Album: Man On The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager, 2010
“Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.”

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