"So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence."

-- Muriel Spark

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Silence Quotes

“As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.”
“I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.”
“Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.”
“There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.”
“I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.”

Source : "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.
“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”
“Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.”
“Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.”

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