"A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Years Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel”
“If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past...”
“A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.”
“That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.”
“The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.”
“For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.”
“In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.”
“What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?”

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