"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over."

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Source : Teddy Wayne, Marjorie Celona, Jim Gavin, William Nicholson, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (2013). “Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Marjorie Celona

#Perfect Quotes #Letters Quotes #Empty Quotes

“I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.”
“I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.”
“It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.”
“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.71, Dial Press
“Itâ€™s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
“I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.”
“Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.”
“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”

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