"I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart."

-- Richard Yates

#Crush Quotes #Heart Quotes #Stories Quotes

“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.”
“Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.”
“The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.”
“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”
“Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.”
“Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.”
“Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.”

Source : James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”
“I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.”

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