"We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce."

-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#War Quotes #Divorce Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.”
“There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.”
“A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other”
“Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.”
“An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want”
“The moon had the old moon in her arms ...”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.96, Oxford University Press
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
“When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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