"A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own."

-- Alfred Kazin

#Death Quotes #Years Quotes #Dying Quotes

“How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with ] both parties, it's beyond belief.”
“I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.”

Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.52, Penguin
“I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if Â maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.”
“I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.”
“At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.”
“Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.”
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].”
“Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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