"...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around."

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Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.131, Vintage

Susan Minot

#People Quotes #Design Quotes #Might Quotes

“I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
“The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary...”
“Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.”
“I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.”
“We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.”
“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”
“If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.”

Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Donâ€™t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”

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