"When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose."

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Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

Nathalia Crane

#Years Quotes #Rose Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.”
“Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.”
“With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.”
“Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by JoÃ£o Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.”

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“There is a reason the Democrats have had only two Presidents since 1968 and have managed to lose control of both houses of Congress in recent years. There is a reason they keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And it's not fraud and it's not dirty politics and it's not stupid voters. It's the plain and simple fact that the majority of those who vote don't like them.”
“There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.”
“I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.”
“There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.”

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