"You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true."

-- Pablo Neruda

#Stars Quotes #Night Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.”
“My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'”
“College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.”
“I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.”
“If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.”
“Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.”

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