"I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder."

-- John Cheever

#Love Quotes #Rain Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.”
“In the fiftiesâ€¦ we were so busy being cool that we didnâ€™t know how to say the word love”
“Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.”
“If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.”
“When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.”
“I think in this day and age it's very important.”
“Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.”

Source : "A Muscular Idealism" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2004.
“Suddenly I feel anything is possible”

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