"Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Journey Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Speech Quotes

“My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.”
“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”
“It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.”
“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

Source : Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”
“One should be allowed to choose one's burden.”

Source : Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
“I work whenever I'm let.”
“The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.41, Algonquin Books

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