"It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb."

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Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

Helen Van Slyke

#Travel Quotes #White Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting”
“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
“I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.”
“I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.”

Source : "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
“Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press
“The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.”
“People are only mean when they're threatenedâ€¦ and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”
“Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.”

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